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

Fellow monasterians,

This is a new error for me and in researching it I haven't turned up anything definitive.

my $filename="http://www.acmestudios.com/clients/SM724/beta/com/com.co
+nfig.style1.smf";
open (DATA, ">$filename") or print "Error opening $filename: $!";
   print DATA $filevalue;
close (DATA);

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Thought it might be permissions so chmodded the directory 777 (don't worry, didn't leave it). And when I run it from the URL window, I get the "no such file or directory" error. If I just enter the file name as a URL, it prints the contents of the file to screen. So, I know it's there.

Ideas? TIA


—Brad
"The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men." George Eliot

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Re: Bad file descriptor error
by merlyn (Sage) on Jul 13, 2005 at 00:31 UTC 
    my $filename="http://www.acmestudios.com/clients/SM724/beta/com/com.co
+nfig.style1.smf";
open (DATA, ">$filename") [.... rest deleted ...]

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    What do you expect that to do? http is a web protocol, not the prefix of a pathname. Opening a filename that starts "h t t p colon slash slash" is not likely to do anything useful, and in fact would give you the errors you describe.

    -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
    Be sure to read my standard disclaimer if this is a reply.

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[d/l]

      Yikes! Thanks merlyn. I was trying for the absolute path and now realize I need to use the server's path.

      Sometimes we need a little push over the bump, even if it's a bit embarrassing.


      —Brad
      "The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men." George Eliot
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