NAME

Net::DirectConnect - Perl Direct Connect protocol implementation

SYNOPSIS

  use Net::DirectConnect;
  my $dc = Net::DirectConnect->new(
    'host' => 'dc.mynet.com:4111', #if not 411
    'Nick' => 'Bender', 
    'description' => 'kill all humans',
     #'M'           => 'P', #passive mode, autodetect by default
     #'local_mask'       => [qw(80.240)], #mode=active if hub in this nets and your ip in gray
  );
  $dc->wait_connect();
  $dc->chatline( 'hi all' );

  while ( $dc->active() ) {
    $dc->work();    
  }
  $dc->destroy();

look at examples for handlers

DESCRIPTION

 Currently NOT supported:
 segmented, multisource download;
 async connect;

INSTALLATION

 To install this module type the following:

   cpan DBD::SQLite IO::Socket::IP IO::Socket::INET6 IO::Socket::SSL
   perl Makefile.PL && make install clean

 debian:
 apt-get install libdbd-sqlite3-perl libio-socket-ip-perl libjson-xs-perl libjson-perl libmime-base32-perl liblib-abs-perl

SEE ALSO

 latest snapshot
 svn co svn://svn.setun.net/dcppp/trunk/ dcppp

 http://svn.setun.net/dcppp/timeline/browser/trunk

 usage example:
 used in [and created for] http://sourceforge.net/projects/pro-search http://pro.setun.net/search/
 ( http://svn.setun.net/search/trac.cgi/browser/trunk/crawler.pl )


 protocol info:
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Connect_network
 http://www.teamfair.info/DC-Protocol.htm
 http://adc.sourceforge.net/ADC.html

 also useful for creating links from web:
 http://magnet-uri.sourceforge.net/
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet:_URI_scheme

TODO

 CGET file files.xml.bz2 0 -1 ZL1<<<

 Rewrite better

AUTHOR

Oleg Alexeenkov, <pro@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2005-2011 Oleg Alexeenkov

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.10.0 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.