PERL Beginners - unable to use perl script with post on university wireless network

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unable to use perl script with post on university wireless network

Perllearner

2007-09-15, 10:00 pm

I am a little stumped as to what is happening, just a few hours ago, I
was able to use the same script at home, however on a university
wireless, the script just stalls, and even perl package manager gives
a error 500. I am a little

on where to go from here, or how
to circumvent this, I am using winxp professional with service pack
2. Does anyone know how I may be able to use a perl script with such
a restriction?

Mumia W.

2007-09-15, 10:00 pm

On 09/15/2007 01:17 PM, perllearner wrote:
> I am a little stumped as to what is happening, just a few hours ago, I
> was able to use the same script at home, however on a university
> wireless, the script just stalls, and even perl package manager gives
> a error 500. I am a little

on where to go from here, or how
> to circumvent this, I am using winxp professional with service pack
> 2. Does anyone know how I may be able to use a perl script with such
> a restriction?
>
>

Is Perl installed on the "university wireless"?

If so, what Perl?

In what context is the script executing? Standalone, CGI,
IIS/PerlScript, Apache/Mod_perl?

What is the script in question?

Perllearner

2007-09-16, 7:03 pm

On 16 Sep, 03:11, mumia.w.18.spam+nos...@earthlink.net (Mumia W.)
wrote:
> On 09/15/2007 01:17 PM, perllearner wrote:
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> Is Perl installed on the "university wireless"?
>
> If so, what Perl?
>
> In what context is the script executing? Standalone, CGI,
> IIS/PerlScript, Apache/Mod_perl?
>
> What is the script in question?

Perl is installed on my laptop, and worked just fine when at home, and
not using the university wireless network
I am on windowsxp sp2 with active perl 5.8.6
the script utilizes www::mechanize, however I notice scripts that do
not use the internet or internet related modules work just fine

Chas Owens

2007-09-16, 7:03 pm

On 9/16/07, perllearner <cashback103@dodgeit.com> wrote:
> On 16 Sep, 03:11, mumia.w.18.spam+nos...@earthlink.net (Mumia W.)
> wrote:
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> Perl is installed on my laptop, and worked just fine when at home, and
> not using the university wireless network
> I am on windowsxp sp2 with active perl 5.8.6
> the script utilizes www::mechanize, however I notice scripts that do
> not use the internet or internet related modules work just fine
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Do you use a proxy on that network? If you do then you need to tell
Perl what that proxy is.

Perllearner

2007-09-17, 3:59 am

On 16 Sep, 19:04, chas.ow...@gmail.com (Chas Owens) wrote:
> On 9/16/07, perllearner <cashback...@dodgeit.com> wrote:
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> Do you use a proxy on that network? If you do then you need to tell
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I am connected via a wireless network, and in internet explorer it is
set to automatically detect settings for the LAN, when you say tell
perl what that proxy is, how would I go about doing this? first
finding the proxy, and the code to place it in my perl scripts

Ruprecht Helms

2007-09-17, 3:59 am

perllearner wrote:

> I am connected via a wireless network, and in internet explorer it is
> set to automatically detect settings for the LAN, when you say tell
> perl what that proxy is, how would I go about doing this? first
> finding the proxy, and the code to place it in my perl scripts

hi,

I'm a little

. A perl script is only a script that do things
automaticly. What you mean is that the action that the script should do
takes not the result that you want. So the question is what you should
do with the script. Do you want only a CGI-act or do you want a
ftp-connection or the script should do a database-transaction or what
should the script do.

Regards,
Ruprecht Helms

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Web: http://www.rheyn.de

Chas Owens

2007-09-17, 7:00 pm

On 9/16/07, perllearner <cashback103@dodgeit.com> wrote:
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> I am connected via a wireless network, and in internet explorer it is
> set to automatically detect settings for the LAN, when you say tell
> perl what that proxy is, how would I go about doing this? first
> finding the proxy, and the code to place it in my perl scripts
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Here is how to tell WWW::Mechanize about the proxy.
http://search.cpan.org/dist/WWW-Mec...a_proxy_server?

I would ask a network admin what the proxy address is.

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