I'm in agreement that it's probably best if questions are
general (although a small amount of code to illustrate
the point might be of use). But even if the questions
are general, the answers need not be--links to snippets
or catacombs following an explanation would be nice.
Sometimes it is quite helpful to see a working example
if you just don't understand the syntex from the answer.
Now for some comments on the Network programming section
(someone had to take the middle of the list):
- Questions without answers, such as 'Possible to unpack
a word byte' don't add much to Q&A without answers.
- 'When I use socket how can get the QUERY_STRING?' might
be renamed 'Sending and receiving data to/from a socket'
if the question were made more general.
- 'How do I put a web page into a variable' looks like
a two-part question, part of which is a network question
'How to get a web page' and part of which is an HTML
parsing question.
- 'How do I send a file through a Socket Connection'
could probably be combined with the QUERY_STRING question.
This one has a nice generic answer but a rather undetailed
question.
- 'Transfer file through socket ,OK, but I get a blank file
on the receiving end .' has an undetailed description.
The question seems more like a Seekers question. The
bottom part of the answer, about dealing with binary files,
would be good to keep around under a different heading.
- 'Can't locate object' is a very specific question
better suited for Seekers.
- 'Non-blocking accept' should perhaps include 'with
Socket' in the title. It includes a thank-you post.
- 'Read data from a socket' has no formulated question.
The answer could be combined with the others about reading
and writing to sockets.
- 'Questions about Socket, IO::Socket IO::Socket::INET'
seems to be a fairly specific question. The suggestion
to read the man pages could be preserved under a more
general 'Understanding Socket modules' or something of
the ilk.
- 'Help me with the code . need help ASAP' is a
specific (and unclarified) question.
- 'How do I invoke a procedure on a server remotely'
could be combined with 'How do I execute a list of Unix
commands...' as both address performing operations on
remote machines.
- 'Two way communication in Sockets. Need Two way Client
Server Interaction' looks like it could be combined with
'Client Server Communication. How to accept data sent by
the server' and has a bit in common with 'how do you
make a server program accept connections infinitely?'
- The question 'How to send 1 query to many sites &
read back their replies without using LWP?' seems specific.
The answer about LWP::Parallel could be included in the
other client/server communication questions.