Net::INET6Glue(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				       Net::INET6Glue(3pm)

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

       Net::INET6Glue 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
       Net::FTP, Net::SMTP, LWP,...) do not support IPv6 even if the modules for IPv6 sockets Socket6, IO::Socket::INET6 are available.

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

       Net::INET6Glue::INET_is_INET6
	   Makes IO::Socket::INET behave like IO::Socket::INET6, especially make it capable to create IPv6 sockets. This makes LWP, Net::SMTP and
	   others IPv6 capable.

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

COPYRIGHT

       This module and the modules in the Net::INET6Glue Hierarchy distributed together with this module are copyright (c) 2008, 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.

perl v5.12.3							    2011-08-27						       Net::INET6Glue(3pm)