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From: Gisle Aas <[email protected]>
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Subject: libwww-perl-5.04
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Date: 25 Oct 1996 00:55:37 GMT
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A new version of libwww-perl is available from
<URL:http://www.sn.no/libwww-perl/> as well as from
CPAN/authors/Gisle_Aas/

Libwww-perl is a collection of Perl modules which provides a simple
and consistent programming interface (API) to the World-Wide Web.  The
main focus of the library is to provide classes and functions that
allow you to write WWW clients, thus libwww-perl said to be a WWW
client library. The library also contain modules that are of more
general use.

Changes since 5.03 are:

o  Added HTTP::Daemon.  This is a HTTP/1.1 server class.

o  HTTP::Message support the protocol() method.  Used by HTTP::Daemon.

o  HTTP::Response can be constructed with a header and content as
   argument.

o  Typo corrections in the documentation.

o  File::Listing::parse_dir accepts "GMT" as timezone now.

o  HTML::Parser will call the start() method with two new parameters;
   $attrseq, $origtext.

o  Integrated HTML::FormatPS patches from
   Jim Stern <[email protected]>

o  Class modules don't inherit from AutoLoader any more.  They just
   import the AUTOLOAD method.

o  LWP::Protocol will untaint scheme before loading protocol module.

o  Digest does not send "opaque" if it was not present in the request.
   The "Extension" header is not returned any more.

o  New method: $url->crack that will return a list of the various
   elements in a URI::URL.

o  WWW::RobotRules did not use the agent() method when determining
   who we are.  This affected WWW::RobotRules::AnyDBM_File parsing
   for robots.txt.  Visit count did not increment for
   WWW::RobotRules::InCore.

--
Gisle Aas <[email protected]>