Can't call method "send" on an undefined value

[jabdulius]

Hi all, newb to Perl here. I'm trying to use the Net:SNPP package to send a page, and getting the above error when trying to send. Here's my code:

my $host = "snpp.cingular.com:444";
 
my $snpp = Net::SNPP->new( $host );
 
$snpp->send( Pager => $to, Message => $message,);
 
$snpp->quit;
 

I think that the problem may be that we're running Apache on top of a windows server as that seemed to introduce some other problems, but this doesn't make sense to me since I'm definitely defining $snpp, aren't I?

Thanks in advance.
-Karim Varela

[miller]

Whenever connecting to an external host, add error checking that verifies the connection was established.

my $snpp = Net::SNPP->new( $host ) or die "Unable to create Net::SNPP object";
 

We can predict that the above line will fail because you've already received an error message that says that $snpp is undefined (hence why you can't call "send" on it). It will be up to you to determine why you can't connect.

- Miller