Archive for April 2010

Strawberry Perl, patch.exe and UAC

I work a lot with Perl 5 under Windows and have loved Strawberry Perl so much. I’ve been using ActiveState’s ActivePerl since 2001 and welcomed the UNIX-like experience Strawberry Perl gave me, especially because it was sometimes very hard to get some modules for ActivePerl. Anyhow, in Windows Vista and up the User Account Control […]

Important Bug Fix in Authen::CAS::External 0.06

Earlier today I released an important bug fix to my distribution Authen-CAS-External (under version 0.06). The bug caused the distribution to fail on CAS deployments where the application was not deployed at the root URL (i.e. https://cas.domain.com/login worked fine, but https://cas.domain.com/cas/login did not work at all). The reason was because the LWP::UserAgent handler rules had […]

Big Updates to Nagios::Plugin::OverHTTP

I was contacted by Peter van Eijk who was interested in getting performance data support added to Nagios-Plugin-OverHTTP and I quickly moved to add it in. Version 0.14 added performance data support and a major overhaul was made to the class layout. I was inspired by the layout of Plack and thought that it was […]