Net::I...ue::FTP(3pm)

💖 Net::INET6Glue::FTP 💖

okay bestie, so this page is the manual for Net::INET6Glue::FTP, which ships with perl v5.32.1 and got its last glow-up on 2021-02-28. pull up a chair, we're giving an old module the IPv6 treatment 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

Net::INET6Glue::FTP — it adds IPv6 support to Net::FTP by hotpatching. yes, hotpatching. we're going in live. no cap 🔥

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🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

use Net::INET6Glue::FTP;
use Net::FTP;
my $ftp = Net::FTP->new( '::1' );
$ftp->login(...)

literally that's it. load the glue first, load Net::FTP, and suddenly '::1' just works. iconic behavior honestly 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea, bestie: this module brings IPv6 support to Net::FTP, and it does it by hotpatching support for the EPRT and EPSV commands straight into Net::FTP. not asking nicely, not waiting for a patch upstream — just going in and making it happen. main character energy, fr fr ✨

it also hotpatches the pasv, port and _dataconn methods so they actually make use of EPRT and EPSV when you're on an IPv6 connection. because what's the point of having the commands if nobody calls them, right? 🙈

and it doesn't stop there — it also bundles in Net::INET6Glue::INET_is_INET6 so the Net::FTP sockets come out IPv6 capable. one little module, doing the absolute most, and we're obsessed 👑

ngl, "hotpatching" means exactly what it sounds like: it reaches into Net::FTP at runtime and swaps things out. so load Net::INET6Glue::FTP before you go making Net::FTP objects, mmkay? 💀

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🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀

this module is copyright (c) 2008..2014, Steffen Ullrich. All Rights Reserved. it's free software, babes — you can use it, redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. sharing is caring, periodt 💖

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🌸 this was Net::INET6Glue::FTP from the perl v5.32.1 user-contributed perl documentation, dated 2021-02-28 — go make some IPv6 sockets and slay 💅🦋✨