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.
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