NAME¶
Net::INET6Glue::INET_is_INET6 - make IO::Socket::INET behave like
IO::Socket::INET6
SYNOPSIS¶
use Net::INET6Glue::INET_is_INET6;
use LWP::Simple;
print get( 'http://[::1]:80' );
print get( 'http://ipv6.google.com' );
DESCRIPTION¶
Many modules directly create IO::Socket::INET sockets or have it as a
superclass. Because IO::Socket::INET has no support for IPv6 these modules
don't have it either.
This module tries to make IO::Socket::INET behave like IO::Socket::IP (with
fallback to IO::Socket::INET6) by copying the symbol table from IO::Socket::IP
into IO::Socket::INET. The original symbol table from IO::Socket::INET is
still available in IO::Socket::INET4.
This strategy works for Net::SMTP, LWP and probably a lot of other modules too,
which don't try to depend too much on the innards of IO::Socket::INET or on
the text representation of IP addresses (IPv6 addresses look different than
IPv4 addresses).
COPYRIGHT¶
This module is copyright (c) 2008..2014, Steffen Ullrich. All Rights Reserved.
This module is free software. It may be used, redistributed and/or modified
under the same terms as Perl itself.