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Hello,

when i run my little perl script, Perl crashes (using Win2000+ActiveState
Perl 5.8..
I have no idea why.

Here the little script:
---------------------------------
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use LWP::UserAgent;
use strict;

my $url = "http://www.google.de";
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(); # create virtual browser
$ua->agent("someagent/v 0.1a"); # giving browser a name

my $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url);
my $webpage = $ua->request($req);

if ($webpage->is_success){ print $webpage->content;}
else {print $webpage->status_line, "\n";}
-----------------------------------

It works under Linux, so there should be no reason to crash. I discovered
that the crash happens, when GET is called.

"perl" <> wrote in message
news:ehla17$nto$...
> Hello,
>
> when i run my little perl script, Perl crashes (using Win2000+ActiveState
> Perl 5.8..
> I have no idea why.
>
> Here the little script:
> ---------------------------------
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
>
> use LWP::UserAgent;
> use strict;
>
> my $url = "http://www.google.de";
> my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(); # create virtual browser
> $ua->agent("someagent/v 0.1a"); # giving browser a name
>
> my $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url);
> my $webpage = $ua->request($req);
>
> if ($webpage->is_success){ print $webpage->content;}
> else {print $webpage->status_line, "\n";}
> -----------------------------------
>

Can't reproduce the problem. That script works fine for me using ActiveState
perl 5.8.8 (build 817) on Windows 2000.

What exactly happens when "Perl crashes" ? Do you get any error messages ?

Cheers,
Rob

perl <> wrote:

> Perl crashes


What does "crashes" mean when you say it?

That is, what symptoms do you observe?


--
Tad McClellan SGML consulting
Perl programming
Fort Worth, Texas

> > when i run my little perl script, Perl crashes (using
Win2000+ActiveState
> > Perl 5.8..
> > I have no idea why.
> >
> > Here the little script:
> > ---------------------------------
> > #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> >
> > use LWP::UserAgent;
> > use strict;
> >
> > my $url = "http://www.google.de";
> > my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(); # create virtual browser
> > $ua->agent("someagent/v 0.1a"); # giving browser a name
> >
> > my $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url);
> > my $webpage = $ua->request($req);
> >
> > if ($webpage->is_success){ print $webpage->content;}
> > else {print $webpage->status_line, "\n";}
> > -----------------------------------
> >
>
> Can't reproduce the problem. That script works fine for me using
ActiveState
> perl 5.8.8 (build 817) on Windows 2000.
>
> What exactly happens when "Perl crashes" ? Do you get any error messages ?


Thnx for your quick answer, Rob. The error message i got is the typical
popup window (translated from german):
perl.exe caused an error an will be closed. Start the program again. An
errrorprotocol is created.
Now that's really helpfull . I looked where the error could be stored,
but
i have not found it.

Fortunately i solved the problem. I was quite stupid. I detected an older
version of ActiveState Perl (5.6.1) which was also installed. I simply
removed both ones and reinstalled the actual 5.8.8. Now it seems to work.

I feel ashamed

Zed

perl wrote:

>The error message i got is the typical
>popup window (translated from german):
>perl.exe caused an error an will be closed.

Ouch. That sounds bad.

I think LWP is pure perl, otherwise I'd first think of an incompatible
DLL from a module somewhere.

Can you reproduce it, or not reproduce it, with other modules?

--
Bart.

> >The error message i got is the typical
> >popup window (translated from german):
> >perl.exe caused an error an will be closed.
>
> Ouch. That sounds bad.
>
> I think LWP is pure perl, otherwise I'd first think of an incompatible
> DLL from a module somewhere.
>
> Can you reproduce it, or not reproduce it, with other modules?

I had the same kind of crash with XML:Twig. I first thought i was writing
really bad code, but i got suspicious when it also happend with LWP.

I cannot reproduce it anymore, since i solved the problem.

"perl" <> wrote in message
..
..
> I detected an older
> version of ActiveState Perl (5.6.1) which was also installed. I simply
> removed both ones and reinstalled the actual 5.8.8. Now it seems to work.
>

Perl 5.6.1 and 5.8.8 are "binary incompatible". The error you reported is
fairly typical of what happens when the perl 5.8.8 executable finds a binary
built for perl 5.6.1 (or, conversely, when the perl 5.6.1 executable finds a
binary built for 5.8..

By removing the older version of perl, you've eliminated one way for a
"binary incompatibility" to arise

Cheers,
Rob

perl wrote:
>>> The error message i got is the typical
>>> popup window (translated from german):
>>> perl.exe caused an error an will be closed.
>> Ouch. That sounds bad.
>>
>> I think LWP is pure perl, otherwise I'd first think of an incompatible
>> DLL from a module somewhere.
>>
>> Can you reproduce it, or not reproduce it, with other modules?
>
> I had the same kind of crash with XML:Twig. [...]

Maybe if you tried XML::Twig it would have helped.

> >>> The error message i got is the typical
> >>> popup window (translated from german):
> >>> perl.exe caused an error an will be closed.
> >> Ouch. That sounds bad.
> >>
> >> I think LWP is pure perl, otherwise I'd first think of an incompatible
> >> DLL from a module somewhere.
> >>
> >> Can you reproduce it, or not reproduce it, with other modules?
> >
> > I had the same kind of crash with XML:Twig. [...]
>
> Maybe if you tried XML::Twig it would have helped.

Ahm, that's what i was meaning of course

> > I detected an older
> > version of ActiveState Perl (5.6.1) which was also installed. I simply
> > removed both ones and reinstalled the actual 5.8.8. Now it seems to
work.
> >
>
> Perl 5.6.1 and 5.8.8 are "binary incompatible". The error you reported is
> fairly typical of what happens when the perl 5.8.8 executable finds a
binary
> built for perl 5.6.1 (or, conversely, when the perl 5.6.1 executable finds
a
> binary built for 5.8..
>
> By removing the older version of perl, you've eliminated one way for a
> "binary incompatibility" to arise

I did not expect of such trouble having 2 different (incompatible) versions.
Good to know this.

Thank you,
Zed