NAME
   HTTP::WebTest - Testing static and dynamic web content

DESCRIPTION
 Introduction
   This module runs tests on remote URLs containing
   Perl/JSP/HTML/JavaScript/etc. and generates a detailed test report. This
   module can be used "as-is" or its functionality can be extended using
   plugins. Plugins can define test types and provide additional report
   capabilities. This module comes with a set of default plugins but can be
   easily extended with third party plugins.

   The wt script is provided for running "HTTP::WebTest" from the command
   line.

   The test specifications can be read from a parameter file in wtscript
   format or input as method arguments. The test results can be displayed on
   the terminal, directed to a file, stored in a scalar variable. The test
   results can also be emailed. The report can be modified and extended using
   report plugins.

   Each URL/web file is tested by fetching it from the web server using a
   local instance of an HTTP user agent. The basic test is simply whether or
   not the fetch was successful. You may also test using literal strings or
   regular expressions that are either required to exist or forbidden to
   exist in the fetched page. You may also specify tests for the minimum and
   maximum number of bytes in the returned page. You may also specify tests
   for the minimum and maximum web server response time.

   Data flow for "HTTP::WebTest":

             --------------              -------------
             |            |              |           |
             | Input      |------------->|  WebTest  |
             | parameters |              |           |
             |            |              -------------
             --------------                  |   ^
                                             |   |
                                             V   |
             -------------               ------------
             |           |    request    |          |
             | Remote    |<--------------|   HTTP   |
             | webserver |-------------->|   user   |
             |           |    response   |   agent  |
             -------------               |          |
                                         ------------

RESTRICTIONS / BUGS
   This module have been tested only on Unix (e.g., Solaris, Linux, AIX,
   etc.) but it should work on Win32 systems.

   If you want to test https:// web sites you may have to install additional
   modules to enable SSL support in LWP. In short you may have to install
   Crypt::SSLeay module. For details see README.SSL file in LWP distro.

AUTHORS
   Richard Anderson <[email protected]> wrote "HTTP::WebTest
   1.xx", using some ideas from the CPAN Monkeywrench module.

   Ilya Martynov <[email protected]> implemented the plug-in concept, the
   extended API and completely rewrote "HTTP::WebTest".

   Please don't email authors directly. Use the SourceForge "HTTP::WebTest"
   mail list (see SUPPORT, next section).

SUPPORT
   Please email bug reports, suggestions, questions, etc. to the SourceForge
   "HTTP::WebTest" maillist. You can sign up at
   http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/http-webtest-general . The
   email address is "[email protected]".

COPYRIGHT
   Copyright (c) 2000-2001 Richard Anderson. All rights reserved.

   Copyright (c) 2001-2003 Ilya Martynov. All rights reserved.

   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
   under the same terms as Perl itself.

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