Happy new year!

Gisle Aas (gisle@activestate.com)
02 Jan 2001 08:22:58 -0800 

A year passed and not much happened to the libwww-perl distribution.
I can't really promise that situation will improve much in the coming
year either.  I simply find it hard to allocate enough spare time to
keep the ball rolling.

One thing I managed to do was to set up libwww-perl as project on
SourceForge:

   http://sourceforge.net/projects/libwww-perl/

This project covers the libwww-perl, HTML-Parser and URI distributions
on CPAN.  This should at least allow us to maintain a bug database and
should also allow others to commit changes to the CVS repository.  If
anybody wants this kind of access please let me know.

And I actually managed to pull together a new release at the end of
last year.  You should now be able to find libwww-perl-5.49 on CPAN
with the following changes since 5.48:

    HTML::Form: Use croak() instead of die.  Implement
    $f->possible_values.  Avoid use of undef value warnings.
 
    HTTP::Cookies: fix epath issue.  Make it work for URI::http
    as the uri-attribute of HTTP::Request object
 
    HTTP::Date: Allow ignored timezone info in parenthesis. Patch
    by Sander van Zoest <sander@covalent.net>.
    Fix calculation of non-GMT timezones (wrong sign).  Patch by
    KONISHI Katsuhiro <konishi@din.or.jp>.
 
    HTTP::Response: Let $res->base() absolutize the URI.  Based on
    bug report from Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>.
 
    Fixed minor doc typos in HTTP::Headers::Util and LWP::UserAgent.
 
    HTTP::Request::Common: Support boundary spec from client.
 
    LWP::Simple: Avoid trivial_http_get when @ appears in authority
    part of URI
 
    LWP::Authen::Digest: Need to have query in URI param.
    Spotted by <ronald@innovation.ch>.
 
    LWP::Protocol::http: unescape username/password if they are
    specified in the URI.
 
    Added LWP::Protocol::GHTTP.  This allow LWP to use the HTTP::GHTTP
    module as the low level HTTP driver.

There are probably lots of patches from the mailing list that I have
missed.  For that I'm truly sorry.  If you submitted a patch I
neglected or know patches that you would like to see included it might
be a good idea to register it as a bug (or register a patch) on the
SourceForge project page.

Regards,
Gisle