Net::INET6Glue(3pm)

💖 Net::INET6Glue 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this is Net::INET6Glue — the little Perl module (from the User Contributed Perl Documentation corner of the world) that makes your fave common modules IPv6 ready by hotpatching them. yes. hotpatching. she's a glow-up artist for old code and she is not subtle about it. 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

like, just do this and watch the magic happen:

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

that's it. that's the whole vibe. 🫶

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so Net::INET6Glue is a whole collection of modules whose entire job is making common modules IPv6 ready by hotpatching them. iconic behaviour honestly. 👑

now for the sad part, and I'm gonna be real with you: the current state of IPv6 support in perl is that there is no IPv6 support in the core, and a lot of important modules (like Net::FTP, Net::SMTP, LWP, ...) don't support IPv6 either — even if the modules for IPv6 sockets, like Socket6, IO::Socket::IP or IO::Socket::INET6, are available. it's giving "everyone has the ingredients but nobody's cooking". 😭

so this module tries to mitigate that, by hotpatching. currently the following submodules are available:

• Net::INET6Glue::INET_is_INET6 — makes IO::Socket::INET behave like IO::Socket::IP (with fallback to like IO::Socket::INET6), and especially makes it capable of creating IPv6 sockets. this is the one that makes LWP, Net::SMTP and others IPv6 capable. queen of the group project fr fr. 🔥
• Net::INET6Glue::FTP — hotpatches Net::FTP so it supports the EPRT and EPSV commands, which are needed to deal with FTP over IPv6. also loads Net::INET6Glue::INET_is_INET6, because she brings her friend everywhere. 🦋

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🎀 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. 💜

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ngl, the version info matters too: this is perl v5.32.1, dated 2021-02-28. and that's the Net::INET6Glue(3pm) page — thanks for reading, bestie, go make something IPv6 🧚✨🌈