Technical Notes

The following is a selection of solutions to issues that I have not been able to find documented elsewhere on the Internet.

General Perl Issues

Connecting to a SOAP server over HTTPS via an authenticating proxy

Can't locate object method "new" via package "LWP::Protocol::https::Socket"

Perl Database Issues

Connecting from Apache webserver to Sybase SQL Anywhere 5.5.04 using Perl

Setting up DBI to connect to a DBI proxy server on Linux Mandrake 7.2

General Linux Issues

Enable ping on Linux Mandrake 8.2 or above with high security levels

Running mprime (a.k.a. primenet, gimps) as a daemon on Linux

"Pen Change" error message on HP Deskjet printers

Microsoft Access Issues

Corrupt object in Microsoft Access. This is indicated by the message "Run-time error '2001': You canceled the previous operation".