Hi,

My links database was up and running and then all of a sudden without my interaction the add.pl script produces an error on the add succes page:

URL: http://www.artmania.net - 500 Can't connect to www.artmania.net:80 (Bad protocol 'tcp')

How is that possible ? The modify.pl is still working correct.

greetz
benne

I think it's a problem with my host, because all the scripts using the LWP modules (verify.pl also) stopped working too.

IO::Socket::INET: Bad protocol 'tcp'

... what now ... does anybody know a good (NT) host ?

How about just asking your host to install/reinstall the appropriate modules

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

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Benne,

I just discovered a similar problem running a Perl CGI script which was started by a particular web server. The problem was that the SYSTEMROOT environment variable was not setup. On most NT systems, that should be C:\WINNT. I resolved the problem by putting this line at the beginning of my Perl script:

$ENV{"SYSTEMROOT"} = "C:\\WINNT";


I hope this works for you if you haven't already solved your problem.

Dave

Dave,

YOU ARE A LIFESAVER MAN!!!! Thank you very much... I wish they had documented this... I spent two days trying to figure out why the LWP GET was not working... and after I added the env variable SystemRoot, it starts working!!!. THANK YOU!

Jawad.