Re: libwww-perl-5.00
Martijn Koster (m.koster@webcrawler.com)
Wed, 3 Jul 1996 16:32:48 -0700
At 9:20 PM 7/3/96, Gisle Aas wrote:
>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).
Oops, mistyped that. Yes, I went through what it did.
>Why do you want to swich it off in the first place?
First off I don't always want to believe HTTP-EQUIV values.
Also I may want to override the HeadParser to work differently (cope
with broken HTML for instance); then it seems wasteful to parse it
twice, and is more effort to figure out which http headers came from
http-equiv handling in collect().
Conceptually I dislike the protocol layer having to touch an HTTP
message body content, although in this instance it is practical to use...
Making it an option allows both feelings.
-- Martijn
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