5mi11er has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi all,

Granted this isn't exactly on topic, but I'm not sure where else to ask.

What's wrong with www.perldoc.com? I've not YET been able to access that site; at all, ever. From various browsers, different Interent providers, they all just hang, and eventually time out.

I initially assumed (months ago) the problem was a temporary one. Then thought it was a proxy problem at work, but not using a proxy from my ISP doesn't help. I even tried lynx from a unix shell account, no dice.

Thanks,
-Scott

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Re: What's wrong with perldoc.com?
by kutsu (Priest) on Feb 22, 2005 at 17:13 UTC

    You might check out An alternative Perldoc site, suffice to say nobody (or nobody that I've heard) has given a specified reason that it's down, but there are alternatives: kobesearch, perldrunks, and of course typing perldoc on your system.

    "Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum - I think that I think, therefore I think that I am." Ambrose Bierce

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Re: What's wrong with perldoc.com?
by mattriff (Chaplain) on Feb 22, 2005 at 17:33 UTC
    WARNING: Blatant self-promotion

    Another site with (almost, soon to be again) up-to-date perl docs is perlpod.com, a site of mine.

    It's not the fanciest site ever, but you shouldn't have much in the way of uptime/speed issues with it.:)

    - Matt Riffle

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      Thanks for the links mattriff and kutsu, the couple I've looked at so far work like a charm!

      <digression> I did attempt to search on "perldoc.com problem", but came up empty. Evidently I needed "perldoc.com down" to find anything... </digression>

      -Scott

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Re: What's wrong with perldoc.com?
by brian_d_foy (Abbot) on Feb 22, 2005 at 21:20 UTC

    perldoc.com has had frequent problems with bandwidth limits and charges, but usually Carlos takes care of those pretty quickly. I asked him about the latest outage a couple of weeks ago but haven't heard back from him. He's a new dad so I suspect he's focusing on other things in life. :)

    Other people have mentioned alternative sites, and I'll try Carlos again. If he doesn't want to or can't maintain the site anymore, maybe the domain name can point at one of the other sites (so they have their turn to be victims of their own success :)

    --
    brian d foy <bdfoy@cpan.org>
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Re: What's wrong with perldoc.com?
by jbrugger (Parson) on Feb 22, 2005 at 16:57 UTC
    Not known, but affirmative, same problem here, but It's mirrored on every computer with a complete Perl installation.
    The website is redundant in that perspective.
    use : 
    perldoc [-h] [-v] [-t] [-u] [-m] [-l] [-F] [-i] [-V] [-T] [-r] [-ddest
+ination_file] [-oformatname] [-MFormatterClassName] [-wformatteroptio
+n:value] [-nnroff-replacement] [-X] PageName|ModuleName|ProgramName

perldoc -f BuiltinFunction

perldoc -q FAQ Keyword

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[d/l]
      Ok, but for those of us wanting to look at the docs for past or newer versions than we currently have installed, that doesn't help.

      But, I'm glad to know this isn't a conspiracy or some odd problem only affecting me.

      So, why do so many posts that refer to various documents, still insist on pointing to a non-working web site? (example) I've seen various examples that point to specific entries for specific versions, so I'm thinking SOME people still have access...

      Update before creation: I did notice in the "writeup guide" I had to reference to get the ID link to work correctly that it is easy to create doc links by doing perldoc)://(search terms | function name), so that explains part of it.
      </update>

      Thanks for the reply
      -Scott

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