Right, I am very familiar with that technique. However, if you'll note from my post, my design goals dictate that I establish the tunneled connection without the use of exec() or open() calls to system binaries like the SSH client binary (/usr/bin/ssh) or socat.

I am not looking for how to do this from the shell; I am looking to do this completely from within the confines of my Perl application, mostly for portability issues, but also because this "application" I'm working on will be implemented as a custom module in an API I am designing.

Dependence on external programs in this situation seems sloppy and hard to maintain. I am looking for my fellow developers to simply "use" my module and not have to worry about installing anything else besides other Perl modules.

In reply to Re^2: Tunneling DBD::mysql connections over SSH without using external programs by wwinfrey
in thread Tunneling DBD::mysql connections over SSH without using external programs by wwinfrey

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