[ic] Tag->salestax() causes Safe error in IO/Socket.pm

[Dan Browning]

At 10:42 PM 8/5/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Quoting Dan Browning (dbml@kavod.com):
> > I've got one for the funny papers:
> >
> > This code:
> >
> > [perl tables="products options"]
> >          return ( $Tag->salestax({ noformat => 1, }) );
> > [/perl]
> >
> > Produces this error:
> >
> > x.x.x.x ZfdIYb6S:x.x.x.x - [05/August/2002:20:59:39 -0400] foundation
> > /cgi-bin/cart.cgi/test Safe: require trapped by operation mask at
> > /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i686-linux/IO/Socket.pm line 9.
> >  > Compilation failed in require at
> > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/LWP/Simple.pm line 302.
> >  >
> >  >
> >  >       return ( $Tag->salestax({ noformat => 1, }) );
> >  >
> >  >
> >
> > [salestax noformat=1] works fine, but it really tickles my funny bone that
> > IO/Socket.pm would have a balk at a mere salestax call. :-)  Environment:
> > 4.8.3, CPanel4.  Accepting all comments,
> >
>
>If your database is talking over the net, and some misguided DB driver
>does a runtime "require", you could see this because of Safe.
>
>I hate runtime requires because of this. We are probably the only
>significant piece of software that uses Safe routinely, and also are one
>of the few long-lived Perl daemons. As such people do all sorts of
>bizarre things like not allow class method calls for subroutines and
>routinely call require on repetitive object creation....SOAP::Lite is an
>example of this and it makes programming for it a pain.

Aha, I'm pretty sure its the UPS queries, then.  "Tax on shipping" is 
enabled, so for salestax to calculate, it first runs the shipping, which 
then runs the LWP::Simple request to ups.com.  Any solutions/workarounds?

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