On 8/25/05, Daniel Stenberg <daniel-curl_at_haxx.se> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, TEXTORIS Julien wrote:
>
> > There is not a lot of help on WWW::Curl::easy on perl's pages, so i read
> > liburl's pages, which tell to see the C/C++ description for example.
>
> I hope I don't upset anyone now, but the perl binding is hopelessly
> outdated
> and haven't been touched for several years AFAIK. It was never complete
> and
> over time it just gets worse, since libcurl evolves constantly and if I
> may
> say so, at quite some speed during periods.
>
> I can only recommend that your perl script uses the curl command line tool
> instead of the binding.
>
> I write lots of perl scripts doing curl tasks almost daily, many of them
> for
> paying customers, and I'm sorry to say this but I ruled out the binding
> option
> ages ago.
>
> > So i tried without it to test and i got a segfault !
>
> I guess the only sane thing for you to do, should you really want to go
> down
> this road, is to bring up your debugger and your text editor and get ready
> for
> some research, debugging and patching.
>
> I'm sure others will appreciate this area being addressed. The libcurl
> bindings for PHP, python, tcl and others are far superior.
>
> > Would you understand where the error come from, and/or know where i can
> find
> > a more precise documentation for perl ?
>
> By reading the sources, I'd guess. And by getting a general understanding
> of
> how libcurl (the c API) works.

Thanks for your answer, i was going towards this, seeing noone was
responding to me on perl forums. I'll follow your advice and use curl
instead, to finish the script, and if i can find some time, i'll have a look
at the segfault, i can't promise for now.

Thanks again

julien

Good luck!
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Received on 2005-08-25