Re: libwww-perl-5.00

Gisle Aas (aas@bergen.sn.no)
Wed, 03 Jul 1996 21:20:35 +0200 

In message <v02140b04ae0047dadb28@[192.216.46.39]>, Martijn Koster writes:
> At 12:48 PM 7/3/96, Gisle Aas wrote:
> 
> >>                                                    Either way I'd
> >> like an option to turn this html-parsing behaviour off when doing a
> >> content().
> >
> >What do you mean by "when doing a content()"?
> 
> Well, the content() call does the HTML parsing, which is what I want to be
> able to switch off.

The content() call does *not* do any HTML parsing.  HTML parsing takes
place in the LWP::Protocol::collect() callback for the first few
chunks received (as long as we are inside the <HEAD> section).

Why do you want to swich it off in the first place?

--Gisle