libwww-perl-5.01

Gisle Aas (aas@bergen.sn.no)
Thu, 1 Aug 1996 16:19:47 +0200


Since I am going on vacation now, I though it would be a good idea to
make a new release of libwww-perl :-) I will not be able to read or
answer any mail for the next 3-4 weeks.

Changes since 5.00 are:

 o  Updated ftp protocol module to be compatible with Net::FTP 
    version 2.00 (the version found in libnet-1.00)

 o  New HTML parser module called HTML::LinkExtor

 o  Various documentation typo corrections.  Most of these contributed
    by Bob Dalgleish.

 o  HTML::HeadParser updates 'Content-Base' instead of 'Base'.  It also
    updates the 'Link' header based on <link ...>

 o  HTTP::Headers and HTTP::Status updated according to
    draft-ietf-http-v11-spec-06

 o  HTTP::Headers can now use "_" as alternative to "-" in field names.

 o  HTTP::Response::base now looks for 'Content-Base',
    'Content-Location' and 'Base' headers.

 o  Avoid warning in LWP::MediaTypes if $ENV{HOME} is not defined.

 o  The new $ua->parse_head() method can be used to turn off
    automatic initialization of response headers from the <HEAD>
    section of HTML documents.

 o  Added eq() method for URI::URL objects

 o  The HTML::Formatter recovers even if a handle method is not defined
    for all tags found during traversal

Hakon Ardo's changes to RobotRules & friends is not part of this
release.  There has also been reported some conflicts between Net::FTP
and LWPs use of alarm() which is not addressed.

Regards,
Gisle.