libwww-perl-5b8
Gisle Aas (aas@a.sn.no)
Mon, 26 Feb 1996 22:01:56 +0100
I have made a new release available from:
http://www.sn.no/~aas/perl/www/libwww-perl-5b8.tar.gz
You will need to use perl5.002gamma (or better).
These are the changes since 5b7:
o Renamed functions using thisStyleOfNames to this_style_of_names.
Provided a script called 'update_from_5b7' that helps you upgrade
old scripts.
o Renamed the 'request' and 'mirror' scripts to 'lwp-request' and
'lwp-mirror'.
o Implemented LWP::RobotUA
o Fixed class name for RobotRules. It did not match the file name.
o URI::URL
- perl5.002gamma is required (because use vars).
- The leading slash in now part of the path if it is present.
- More documentation
- Use AutoLoader to speed things up.
- New class URI::URL::_login and made telnet, rlogin, tn3270
subclasses from this one.
- URI::URL::wais is better supported.
- URI::URL::news is better supported.
- New URI::URL::mailto methods: user/host
o HTTP::Date::time2str now works correctly with '0' as argument
o HTTP::Message delegates unknown methods to the headers.
o HTTP::Request::uri is an alias for HTTP::Request::url. Can set
the URL to undef.
o Added convenience methods to HTTP::Headers for easy access to
frequently used headers.
o Simplified LWP::Debug
o Use standard AutoLoader for LWP::IO functions.
o Played with the profiler (Devel::DProf) and made some things
go quicker.
o Included the File::CounterFile module.
o Excluded Mail::Cap module as it is also part of the MailTools package.
--Gisle