NAME

Agent::Transport - the Transportable Agent Perl module

SYNOPSIS

Don't use this package directly!

DESCRIPTION

This package provides an interface to the TCP[/IP] transport medium for agents.

CONSTRUCTOR

new( %args )

If new is not passed an Address, it assumes '127.0.0.1:24368'. It will try to capture the first free port it finds, regardless of the address. All other operation should be straightforward.

ADDRESS FORMAT

This package groks the following standard tcpip formats:

aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd:port
host.domain:port

HACKS

$self->alias()

Returns $self->address only. (should really do hostname lookups et. al.)

SEE ALSO

Agent, Agent::Message, Agent::Transport::*, and the example agents.

AUTHOR

Steve Purkis <spurkis@engsoc.carleton.ca>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 1998 Steve Purkis. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

THANKS

The perl5-agents mailing list.