PERL and LIBCURL

IT does not seem to work under active state perl 5.8

I get this:

Bareword "CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at test4.pl line 21.
Bareword "CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at test4.pl line 22.
Bareword "CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at test4.pl line 27.
Bareword "CURLOPT_FILE" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at test4.pl line 28.
Bareword "CURLOPT_URL" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at test4.pl line 32.
Execution of test4.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

In order to access libcurl from Perl, you need to install an interface package, such as WWW::Curl, which is required by the above example. Take a look at the following page:

  http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/perl/

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  Nayer Naguib

I did install it before I tried running the script.

The errors above indicate that the Perl interpreter was indeed able to locate the file easy.pm under the path WWW/Curl, because otherwise the following error would have been displayed:

Can't locate WWW/Curl/easy.pm in @INC (@INC contains: C:/Perl/lib C:/Perl/site/lib .) at example.pl line 4.

However, the errors also indicate that the file easy.pm does not export libcurl function names, which is why the interpreter thinks that function names in your file are "barewords" and not functions (barewords are strings without surrounding single quotes). You need to follow the installation instructions on the page posted above. Take a look at the following page and compare the file easy.pm to WWW/Curl/easy.pm on your local file system:

  http://www.koders.com/perl/fid50DCD11E38F3A37C3437E8F713DFEA2349C99D7A.aspx

It will give you an indication of how the file should look like.

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  Nayer Naguib

I wasted an hour on this tonight - solution was to change use WWW:Curl:easy to WWW:Curl:Easy (uppercase Easy), and then it worked.  Must be a bug in Perl or something that it found the .pm modules, but didn't assign the namespace...

-Wayne