• NAME
• SYNOPSIS
• DESCRIPTION
• COPYRIGHT

NAME

Net::INET6Glue - Make common modules IPv6 ready by hotpatching

SYNOPSIS

 use Net::INET6Glue; # include all glue
 use LWP;
 use Net::SMTP;
 use Net::FTP;
 ..

DESCRIPTION

the Net::INET6Glue manpage is a collection of modules to make common modules IPv6 ready by hotpatching them.

Unfortunatly the current state of IPv6 support in perl is that no IPv6 support is in the core and that a lot of important modules (like the Net::FTP manpage, the Net::SMTP manpage, LWP,...) do not support IPv6 even if the modules for IPv6 sockets like Socket6, the IO::Socket::IP manpage or the IO::Socket::INET6 manpage are available.

This module tries to mitigate this by hotpatching. Currently the following submodules are available:

the Net::INET6Glue::INET_is_INET6 manpage

Makes the IO::Socket::INET manpage behave like the IO::Socket::IP manpage (with fallback to like the IO::Socket::INET6 manpage), especially make it capable to create IPv6 sockets. This makes LWP, the Net::SMTP manpage and others IPv6 capable.

the Net::INET6Glue::FTP manpage

Hotpatches the Net::FTP manpage to support EPRT and EPSV commands which are needed to deal with FTP over IPv6. Also loads the Net::INET6Glue::INET_is_INET6 manpage.

COPYRIGHT

This module and the modules in the Net::INET6Glue Hierarchy distributed together with this module are copyright (c) 2008..2014, Steffen Ullrich. All Rights Reserved. These modules are free software. They may be used, redistributed and/or modified under the same terms as Perl itself.