I still fucking love Perl

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PierreTheMime: Dec 9, 2004; Hero of hormagaunts everywhere!; Buglord

Alright, I have a Perl question. Well, actually two if you include "why am I using Perl".

I'm using an install of Perl 5.20.1 on AIX Unix and I am being told that the following code is wrong:

code:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Net::FTP;

$ftp = Net::FTP->new("<INSERTFQDNHERE>", Debug => 1)
    or die "Cannot connect! $@";

Error: Cannot connect! Net::FTP: connect: Invalid argument at line 4.

Ultimately I need to apply a Passive argument to this constructor as well but I removed it to ensure that wasn't the cause. This is basically straight lifted from their documentation and I have no idea why it's failing. I've tried changing the server to a variety of values including the IP address, tried single quotes instead of double. Help.

PierreTheMime fucked around with this message at 22:30 on Jul 12, 2020

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PierreTheMime: Dec 9, 2004; Hero of hormagaunts everywhere!; Buglord

PierreTheMime posted:

Net::FTP: connect: Invalid argument at line 4.

So apparently this issue was that the FTP host was refusing the connection and my code was not invalid. The exact same code to another server worked just fine. Very helpful error message :thumbsup:

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