libwww-perl 5.64 review

libwww-perl distribution is a collection of Perl modules, which provides a simple and consistent programming interface (API) to the W

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 179K Developer: Gisle Aas

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libwww-perl distribution is a collection of Perl modules, which provides a simple and consistent programming interface (API) to the WWW (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 is said to be a WWW client library. The library also contains modules that are of more general use.

What's New in This Release:
Simplified the Makefile.PL:

the scripts are not longer *.PL files
don't try to make symlinks for GET, HEAD, POST as that has not worked for a long time
the GET, HEAD, POST aliases for lwp-request should now work on Windows.

HTTP::Cookies:

added 'clear_temporary_cookies' method; patch by Mike Schilli.
trailing space in old cookie parameters not ignored; patch by Ivan Panchenko
protect against $SIG{__DIE__} handlers; patch by Adam Newby.

LWP::Authen::Digest:

abort digest auth session if we fail repeatedly with the same username/password.
MacOS portability patches to the test suite by Chris Nandor.