1 libnet is a collection of Perl modules which provides a simple
2 and consistent programming interface (API) to the client side
3 of various protocols used in the internet community.
5 For details of each protocol please refer to the RFC. RFC's
6 can be found a various places on the WEB, for a staring
9 http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Standards/RFCs/
11 The RFC implemented in this distribution are
13 Net::FTP RFC959 File Transfer Protocol
14 Net::SMTP RFC821 Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
15 Net::Time RFC867 Daytime Protocol
16 Net::Time RFC868 Time Protocol
17 Net::NNTP RFC977 Network News Transfer Protocol
18 Net::POP3 RFC1939 Post Office Protocol 3
19 Net::SNPP RFC1861 Simple Network Pager Protocol
21 The distribution also contains a module (Net::PH) which facilitates
22 comunicate with with servers using the CCSO Nameserver Server-Client
29 The latest version of libnet is available from the Comprehensive Perl
30 Archive Network (CPAN). To find a CPAN site near you see:
32 http://www.perl.com/CPAN
37 In order to use this package you will need Perl version 5.002 or
38 better. You install libnet, as you would install any perl module
39 library, by running these commands:
46 If you want to install a private copy of libnet in your home
47 directory, then you should try to produce the initial Makefile with
48 something like this command:
50 perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=~/perl
53 The Makefile.PL program will start out by checking your perl
54 installation for a few packages that are recommended to be installed
55 together with libnet. These packages should be available on CPAN
60 Normally when perl Makefile.PL is run it will run Configure which will ask some
61 questions about your system. The results of these questions will be stored in
62 the Net::Config package. If you are on a system when this script cannot be run
63 for some reason then the file Config.eg can be edited manually and installed
64 as Net::Config (Net/Comfig.pm)
68 See ChangeLog for recent changes. POD style documentation is included
69 in all modules and scripts. These are normally converted to manual
70 pages and installed as part of the "make install" process. You should
71 also be able to use the 'perldoc' utility to extract documentation from
72 the module files directly.
76 The demos directory does contain a few demo scripts. These should be
77 run from the top directory like
79 demos/smtp.self -user my-email-address -debug
81 However I do not guarantee these scripts to work.
85 Questions about how to use this library should be directed to the
86 comp.lang.perl.modules USENET Newsgroup. Bug reports and suggestions
87 for improvements can be sendt to me at <gbarr@pobox.com>.
89 Most of the modules in this library have an option to output a debug
90 transcript to STDERR. When reporting bugs/problems please, if possible,
91 include a transcript of a run.
95 © 1996-98 Graham Barr. All rights reserved.
97 This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
98 it under the same terms as Perl itself.