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+Revision history for WWW::Mechanize
+
+Please note that WWW::Mechanize and Test::WWW::Mechanize are no
+longer using rt.cpan.org for bug tracking. They are now being
+tracked via Google Code at
+http://code.google.com/p/www-mechanize/issues/list
+
+Mech now has its own mailing list at Google Groups:
+http://groups.google.com/group/www-mechanize-users
+
+1.34 Mon Dec 10 00:30:39 CST 2007
+========================================
+[FIXES]
+Many fixes to make the test suite more portable.
+
+
+1.32 Tue Oct 30 12:02:17 CDT 2007
+========================================
+[ENHANCEMENTS]
+Added dump methods to mirror mech-dump:
+* $mech->dump_images()
+* $mech->dump_links()
+* $mech->dump_forms()
+* $mech->dump_all()
+
+Sanity checks in the WWW::Mechanize::Image constructor. Every Image
+must have a "url" and "tag" field passed in to it.
+
+
+1.31_02 Thu Oct 25 11:48:29 CDT 2007
+========================================
+[ENHANCEMENTS]
+Added class, class_regex, id and id_regex limiters to find_link()
+and find_all_links(). Thanks to Adriano Ferreira.
+
+
+1.31_01 Mon Sep 17 23:38:03 CDT 2007
+========================================
+[FIXES]
+Mech tests now pass even if your DNS server gives A records for
+anything (like OpenDNS). Thanks, Miyagawa!
+
+Searching for the <base href> is now case-inensitive. A better
+solution would be to actually parse the HTML.
+
+[ENHANCEMENTS]
+mech-dump now handles --user and --password arguments for sites
+that require authentication.
+
+
+1.30 Thu May 24 21:31:10 CDT 2007
+========================================
+[DOCUMENTATION]
+Minor doc fixes. Thanks David Steinbrunner.
+
+
+1.29_01 Tue May 22 14:02:55 CDT 2007
+========================================
+Kevin Falcone and I ask for your assistance in figuring out how to
+handle the warnings thrown by the tests, other than hiding them.
+
+[FIXES]
+Overhauled how tainting was done. Stole code directly from
+Test::Taint.
+
+Have LWP only handle decoding of Content-Encoding, not charset.
+
+[DOCUMENTATION]
+Fixed the docs for $mech->submit_form()'s with_fields arg.
+Thanks, Peteris Krumins.
+
+
+1.26 Wed May 16 14:21:29 CDT 2007
+========================================
+[FIXES]
+Re-reversed the content decoding. This is critical for reading from
+sites with gzip on the fly, like Wikipedia.
+
+Content is now properly tainted.
+
+[ENHANCEMENTS]
+mech-dump can now pass --agent and --agent-alias flags so you can
+fetch from sites like Wikipedia that block LWP user agents.
+
+[INSTALLATION]
+The mech-dump program is now always installed. It no longer is
+presented as an option.
+
+
+1.24 Fri May 11 15:57:56 CDT 2007
+========================================
+NOTE: Version 1.24 will NOT automatically decode gzipped content for
+you any more. Consider it a "do not use" release.
+
+[FIXES]
+
+* Fixed failures in "make test" with some versions of HTTP::Server::Simple
+* RT #26593: Improved handling of charsets. Thanks Kevin Falcone.
+* RT #24354: find_link now handles http-equivs with quoted URLs.
+* Reverses the change in 1.21_01 where it decodes the content.
+
+[ENHANCEMENTS]
+* Added find_all_inputs() and find_all_submits() methods. Thanks,
+ Mike O'Regan.
+* Test::LongString is no longer needed, so has been removed as a
+ requirement.
+
+[TESTS]
+* Added a test for save_content()
+
+
+1.22 Fri Mar 2 00:05:57 CST 2007
+========================================
+[INTERNALS]
+Added new tests.
+
+Added Perl::Critic changes and a perlcriticrc file.
+
+
+1.21_04 Sat Oct 7 21:35:42 CDT 2006
+========================================
+[FIXES]
+* $mech->content( type => 'text' ) was not freeing memory. Thanks to
+ Cat Okita for finding it.
+
+[INTERNALS]
+* Made the order of parms to $mech->content() not relevant.
+
+
+1.21_03 Sat Oct 7 01:21:46 CDT 2006
+========================================
+[THINGS THAT MAY BREAK YOUR CODE]
+* The methods $mech->form() and $mech->follow() have been removed.
+ They've been deprecated since 1.10, which was released in Feb 2005.
+
+[ENHANCEMENTS]
+* I'm trying to nail down what seems to be a memory leak on long-running
+ Mech programs. I'm stringifying URI::URL objects wherever I can.
+
+[INTERNALS]
+* No longer uses UNIVERSAL.
+
+
+1.21_02 Wed Oct 4 13:14:30 CDT 2006
+========================================
+[ENHANCEMENTS THAT MAY BREAK YOUR CODE]
+
+* The $mech->stack_depth() setting had no way to say "don't cache any
+ pages at all". How silly!
+
+ Now, if you set $mech->stack_depth(0), no history of pages will be kept.
+ In the past, it would mean "Keep all pages." This means that if you want
+ to set it to keep all pages, set it to some ridiculously large number.
+
+[DOCUMENTATION]
+* The docs previously refered to Compress::Gzip instead of Compress::Zlib.
+
+
+1.21_01 Mon Sep 18 17:18:43 CDT 2006
+========================================
+[ENHANCEMENTS]
+* If Compress::Zlib is installed, gzipped content is now
+ accepted and transparently decoded. No additional syntax needed!
+ This should save time and bandwidth in a number of cases.
+ (Mark Stosberg)
+
+* Added a put() method. It also calls a subfunction called
+ _SUPER_put that will be removed once LWP::UserAgent supports put().
+
+
+
+1.20 Sat Aug 19 09:09:08 EDT 2006
+
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * Added new two-argument form of credentials() method.
+ $mech->credentials($username, $password);
+ That provides simpler visiting of password-protected
+ resources in the vast majority of cases and still
+ allows the other cases to be supported. (Peter Scott)
+
+ [BUG FIXES]
+ * autocheck no longer is triggered when informational
+ responses are returned. (Mark Stosberg)
+
+ [INTERNALS]
+ * test suite no longer fails when Test::Warn is missing.
+ (CPAN testers, Mark Stosberg)
+ * Removed all the testing against live sites. The networking
+ code is not actually in Mech anway, and they were prone to
+ breaking, as the live sites changed. (Mark Stosberg)
+
+
+1.19_02 Mon Aug 7 23:57:56 CDT 2006
+
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * Add new Do-What-I-Mean submit_form() option.
+ $mech->submit_form(
+ with_fields => \%data
+ );
+ That expresses that you want to select the first form contains all
+ fields in \%data, and then submit the data to that form. See the docs
+ for form_with_fields() and submit_form() for details.
+ (Mark Stosberg, inspired by RT#6100)
+
+ [BUG FIXES]
+ * The behavior of clone() now copies over the cookie jar, which
+ is probably what you expected it did in the first place.
+ This fixes bug RT#13541 filed against Test::WWW::Mechanize,
+ which was using clone() internally. (Mark Stosberg)
+
+ * The correct URL is returned after redirecting. This a regression
+ from 1.04 and was reported as RT#9059, RT#12882, and RT#12786.
+ The documentation about this has also been clarified that we
+ return a URI object, but that it stringifies to the URI itself.
+
+ [DOCUMENTATION]
+ * Fixed a misleading parm in the constructor.
+ * Document the return value of set_visible (RT#6071, MJD,
+ Mark Stosberg)
+ * Document that form_name and form_number return an HTML::Form
+ object (Mark Stosberg)
+
+ [INTERNALS]
+ * Made lots of little cleanups based on Perl::Critic
+ * Fix Taint-mode warnings with Perl 5.6.1 (RT#16945)
+
+1.18 Thu Feb 2 00:11:26 CST 2006
+ [TESTS]
+ * Makefile.PL now takes four new parms:
+ * --live/nolive turns on/off the live tests
+ * --local/nolocal turns on/off the local tests
+ * --mech-dump/nomech-dump installs/doesn't the mech-dump program
+ * --all turns on all tests and installs mech-dump
+
+ * Fixed some failures in tests. Non-existent URLs now have a
+ "." postpended to them, so if someone's got a search domain
+ with a wildcard (i.e. ignore.us) it'll ignore that. Also,
+ Google's second link is now a https:// link, which some Mechs
+ can't handle. Added a 'url_regex' which now makes it look at
+ the second non-https link. Thanks to Pete Krawczyk.
+
+1.16 Fri Oct 28 17:34:20 CDT 2005
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * Sped up Mech significantly (~20% in some cases). Images and
+ links are extracted from the HTML, and objects are created,
+ only when they're actually needed. This will be a speedup for
+ pages where you're only following links, or vice versa.
+
+ [THINGS THAT MAY BREAK YOUR CODE]
+ * If you've been relying on the $mech->{images} and $mech->{links}
+ fields being populated so that you can bypass the $mech->images()
+ and $mech->links() accessors, your code will break. That's OK,
+ because you should have been using the accessors all along.
+
+1.14 Tue Aug 30 17:17:40 CDT 2005
+ [DOCUMENTATION]
+ * Added lots of new FAQs. Thanks to Peter Stevens.
+
+ [INTERNALS]
+ * Now requires Test::LongString. That's not too odious.
+
+ [FIXES]
+ * Tests now pass with the shuffling around that Google did.
+
+1.13_01 Tue Apr 12 14:11:18 CDT 2005
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * Now dies if you call submit_form() with a non-existing
+ form_number or form_name. Before, it would just warn.
+
+ [DOCUMENTATION]
+ * Added an example of using credentials() in the cookbook.
+
+1.12 Thu Feb 24 23:38:44 CST 2005
+ [FIXES]
+ * Fixed RT #9026: hang in t/local/back.t under Windows XP.
+ Thanks Andrew Savige. It also should no longer complain
+ about being unable to clean up a temp file.
+
+1.11_01 Mon Feb 14 00:12:48 CST 2005
+ [THINGS THAT MAY BREAK YOUR CODE]
+ * Removed deprecated _parse_html() method.
+
+ [FIXES]
+ * Was incorrectly looking for INPUT tags TYPE="SUBMIT" as images.
+ Thanks to Abe Timmerman.
+
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * Calling $mech->set_fields() with no current form now dies.
+ Thanks to Julien Beasley.
+
+
+1.10 Tue Jan 31 11:30pm-ish
+ [FIXES]
+ * Fixed bug where images inside of links would not be found.
+
+ * Fixed test failures because of Google changes. Thanks to
+ Offer Kaye and others who sent in patches.
+
+ [DOCUMENTATION]
+ * More samples in the FAQ. Thanks to Joshua Gatcomb.
+
+ [INTERNALS]
+
+ * Added explanation of running live tests against Google in
+ Makefile.PL.
+
+
+1.08 Fri Dec 24 01:01:06 CST 2004
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * Added find_image() and find_all_images().
+
+1.06 Wed Dec 8 14:58:39 CST 2004
+ [INTERNALS]
+ * Now uses the base pragma instead of setting @ISA.
+
+1.05_04 Fri Nov 5 23:35:38 CST 2004
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * Added WWW::Mechanize::Image object for representing images.
+ * Improved the regex on the URL for META tags.
+ * Added --images flag to mech-dump.
+
+ [FIXES]
+ * When parsing urls out of meta refresh tags, "url" may now be
+ uppercase (RT#8230)
+
+ * Behavior of back() fixed in a number of cases (RT#8109 reported
+ by Josh Purinton, patched by Dominique Quatravaux)
+
+ [INTERNALS]
+ * Mark figured out to how to prevent his text editor from
+ putting tabs into the code. Andy's blood pressure dropped
+ slightly.
+
+1.05_03 Sun Oct 31 20:54:33 CST 2004
+
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * click_button() has a new input option for HTML::Form::SubmitInput
+ objects (DOMQ)
+
+ * content() has new options to return the page formatted
+ as text, with a <base href> added. (RT#8087, patch by
+ Dominique Quatravaux)
+
+ * update_html() method has been added, which can be used
+ to modify the HTML that Mech parses. It should be sub-classed
+ instead of _parse_html(), which has been deprecated.
+ (RT#8087, patch by Dominique Quatravaux)
+
+ * select() has new option to select an option by number
+ (RT#5789, Scott Lanning)
+
+ * WWW::Mechanize::Link now has support providing all the
+ attributes of the link through a new attrs() method, which
+ returns them as a hashref. This is a replacement for the
+ alt() method, added in 1.05_01. It's not backwards
+ compatible with that, but, hey, that's what developer
+ releases are for. (RT#8092, Rob Casey and Mark Stosberg)
+
+ [FIXES]
+ * Upload <input type="file" ... > does not use the default
+ value to prevent attacks, patch by Jan Pazdziora (RT #7843).
+
+ [INTERNALS]
+ * Improved tests and documentation for select() (RT#5789,
+ Scott Lanning)
+
+ * Improve taint-safeness on Perl 5.6.1 (RT#8042, patch by
+ Dominique Quatravaux)
+
+ * Added tests for click_button() (RT#8061, by Dominique
+ Quatravaux)
+
+ * Require URI 1.25, fixing bug which exposed itself in
+ WWW::Mechanize (RT#3048)
+
+ * Move select() to better location in docs. Document and
+ test the return values. The return value is now "1" on
+ success instead of the undocumented behavior of returning
+ a form value. (RT#6138, spotted by MJD, patched by Mark
+ Stosberg)
+
+ * Possible matching tags for the find_link() 'tag_regex'
+ attribute are now documented. (RT#2989, by Mark Stosberg)
+
+ * refactored find_link() to avoid use of eval(). This should
+ improve performance a bit and avoid potential security
+ issues. (Mark Stosberg)
+
+1.05_02 Sat Oct 2 16:55:59 CDT 2004
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * Added the $mech->save_content( $filename ) function, so you
+ can dump stuff to files easily.
+
+1.05_01 Thu Sep 30 21:04:44 CDT 2004
+
+ [FIXES]
+ * set_visible() doesn't stop setting values when it finds a zero.
+
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * WWW::Mechanize::Link has a new, easier to remember constructor
+ interface. The old one is still supported. Support for including
+ an 'alt' attribute was added, which is useful for <area> links.
+ (RT #3317). Thanks to Mark Stosberg.
+
+ * When links are extracted from <area> tags, the ALT attribute will
+ be captured and become part of the WWW::Mechanize::Link object.
+ (RT #3317). Patch by Mark Stosberg.
+
+ [INTERNALS]
+ * t/mech-dump.t is now more portable (RT #7690)
+
+ * t/local/follow.t has new tests to confirm that 'follow*' functions
+ work with characters like o-umlaut, even when the o-umlaut is
+ encoded in the HTML, but not in the call to follow(). (RT #2416)
+ By Mark Stosberg.
+
+
+
+1.04 Wed Sep 15 23:27:53 CDT 2004
+
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * $mech->get() now accepts a WWW::Mechanize::Link object.
+
+ * $mech->stack_depth(n) lets you set the depth of the mech
+ object's page stack. This way, if you have a Mech that does
+ lots of stuff and never/rarely goes back(), you won't be eating
+ up memory. Thanks to BooK and Chi-Fung. (RT #5362)
+
+ [FIXES]
+ * Fixed tests that fail under LWP >= 5.800.
+
+ * Added a workaround for LWP::UserAgent->clone() when ->{proxy}
+ is undef. (RT #6443)
+
+ * The Referer was getting passed as a URI object sometimes,
+ and that caused sadness. Eugene Haimov supplied a workaround.
+ (RT #6372)
+
+ [DOCUMENTATION]
+ * Added Ian Langworth's listmod and John Beppu's photobucket
+ uploader programs to WWW::Mechanize::Examples.
+
+ * Minor doc tweak for find_link()
+
+ * Finally added a value() func. Thanks to Spoon,
+ who even now, months after his passing, is still contributing
+ to Mechanize.
+
+
+1.02 Tue Apr 13 22:45:10 CDT 2004
+
+ No reason to install if you have 1.00. Fixes are only in tests.
+
+ [FIXES]
+ * t/referer.t didn't cope with spaces in $FindBin::Bin. Plus,
+ it now forces its URL to localhost.
+
+
+1.00 Sat Apr 10 00:35:51 CDT 2004
+
+ I figure it's about time we hit 1.00, and this version seems
+ like a good place to do it, because of the potential breakage
+ described below...
+
+ [THINGS THAT WILL BREAK YOUR CODE]
+ * Header handling has changed. There is no more package variable
+ %headers that holds all the headers to be added. They are
+ now added on a per-object basis.
+
+ If you were adding a header with add_header(), and the code
+ relied on that header still being set later on in a later
+ instance of the class, that code will now break, because the
+ later instance won't have the header set.
+
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * You can now prevent a header from being sent by adding it with
+ an undef value, as in:
+
+ $mech->add_header( Referer => undef );
+
+ [FIXES]
+ * Now correctly adds Accept-Encoding to all requests that need it.
+
+ [INTERNALS]
+ * Added new $mech->_modify_request($req) method to do all the
+ HTTP header modification before the actual request gets
+ sent off. Subclasses are able to override it if they want.
+
+ * Removed the unused Compress::Zlib stuff.
+
+
+0.76 Wed Apr 7 22:01:43 CDT 2004
+
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * Added update_html() to let you update the HTML for the page
+ you're on.
+
+ [FIXES]
+ * Test files account for new Google layout.
+
+ [INTERNALS]
+ * Rearranged the local tests into their own t/local/ directory.
+
+ * Made the standalone tests show what server they're hitting.
+
+ * Checked that it runs under LWP 5.78.
+
+
+0.74 Mon Mar 22 23:36:46 CST 2004
+
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * WWW::Mechanize now sends an Accept-Encoding header of "identity"
+ to always enforce plaintext responses. Preliminary support for
+ Compress::Zlib is also there, but is disabled by default.
+
+ * Added click_button() and select() methods. The field() method
+ can now take an arrayref of values, if appropriate. Thanks,
+ Linda Lee Julien.
+
+ * Added url_abs and url_abs_regex parms to find_all_links().
+
+ * URLs in META REFRESH tags are now treated as links.
+
+ * t/taint.t makes sure that things that should be tainted are.
+
+ [FIXES]
+ * Still more fixes if the machine you're on doesn't have
+ DNS pointing to it.
+
+ * The local changes use localhost as the local host name, instead
+ of whatever host name that might be on the box, but not in DNS.
+ Thanks to David Wheeler for letting me play on his box.
+
+ * The http_proxy and HTTP_PROXY environment variables get
+ deleted during the tests that access the dummy local server.
+ This should let your tests pass, and clear up a lot of RT
+ tickets.
+
+0.72 Mon Jan 26 21:07:20 CST 2004
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * Added the set_visible() method, thanks to Peter Scott.
+
+ [DOCUMENTATION]
+ * Started the Cookbook at WWW::Mechanize::Cookbook.pod.
+
+ [INTERNALS]
+ * Made the globbing in Makefile.PL a little less command-line
+ intensive. Also fixed the missing files in MANIFEST.
+ * Added t/pod-coverage.t for testing POD coverage.
+
+0.71_02 Mon Dec 22 14:29:13 CST 2003
+ [THINGS THAT MAY BREAK YOUR CODE]
+ * Added a 5th, optional parameter to WWW::Mechanize::Link's
+ constructor. In 0.71_01, it was at the beginning of the
+ argument list and was required. Now it's at the end and is
+ optional. If, in the 15 hours since 0.71_01 came out, you
+ went and changed all your WWW::Mechanize::Link constructors,
+ you'll have to change them around again. Otherwise, you can
+ just ignore this change.
+
+0.71_01 Sun Dec 21 23:48:12 CST 2003
+ [THINGS THAT MAY BREAK YOUR CODE]
+ * WWW::Mechanize::Link's constructor has a new argument
+ that needs to be passed in, at the start of the argument
+ list.
+
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * WWW::Mechanize::Link object now takes a $base URL, and will
+ return absolute URLs with the url_abs() method. Thanks to
+ Ashley Pond.
+ * Added another script to WWW::Mechanize::Examples. It's a
+ script that didn't make it into Spidering Hacks.
+
+ [INSTALL & TESTS]
+ * Heavy use of the new Test::Memory::Cycle module.
+ * Fixed Makefile.PL so that the tests are selected under Win32.
+ * Changed t/mech-dump.t so that the test succeeds under Win32.
+ * Updated t/referer.t and t/mech-dump.t so they run under VMS.
+ Thanks to Peter Prymmer.
+
+
+0.70 Sun Nov 30 23:45:27 CST 2003
+ [THINGS THAT MAY BREAK YOUR CODE]
+ * Redirects are now handled better by LWP, so the code that
+ changes POSTs to GETs on redirects has been removed.
+
+ [FIXES]
+ * Fixed redirect_ok(), which had its API changed out from under
+ it in LWP 5.76.
+
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * New warnings in find_link() for strings that are space padded,
+ and for text matches that are passed a regex. Thanks to
+ Jim Cromie.
+
+ [DOCUMENTATION]
+ * Patches from Mark Stosberg and Jim Cromie.
+
+ [INTERNALS]
+ * Removed all the checking for Carp. I don't know why I
+ was thinking that Carp wasn't core. RT #4523.
+
+ Also, a big bump in requirements on LWP: We need 5.76.
+
+
+0.66 Thu Nov 13 14:35:31 CST 2003
+
+ No new functionality. Fixed up some install bugs and made a
+ few documentation tweaks, mostly to plug Spidering Hacks.
+
+
+0.65 Mon Nov 10 00:11:06 CST 2003
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * Made a _parse_html() method that you can override or call
+ manually, per request from Gavin Estey.
+
+ [FIXES]
+ * Made some path naming use File::Spec->catfile so that
+ they work correctly under Windows.
+ * "make clean" cleans up temp flag files.
+
+ [INTERNALS]
+ * Uses the new Test::Pod 1.00 for simplicity.
+
+
+0.64 October 23, 2003 11:15pm
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * Many new tests, based on the excellent coverage reporting
+ created by Paul Johnson's Devel::Cover module.
+
+ * The start of JavaScript support, sort of!
+
+ If you have an <A> tag that does an onClick that opens a
+ window, Mech will find the URL from that and make that
+ be the link for the tag. This is for things like Movable
+ Type that pop little windows to rebuild indexes.
+
+ This is subject to change in the future. I don't know
+ if it will, but I'm not making promises. It might be so
+ buggy I just yank the whole thing.
+
+ * Big jump in requirements, since we'll soon be using Gisle's
+ new HTML::Form stuff. Also, older versions of HTML::Form
+ don't give output I'm expecting.
+
+ [FIXES]
+ * Fixed the t/mech-dump.t failure.
+
+0.63 October 13, 2003 2:56pm
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * mech-dump defaults to dumping forms.
+ * Added name, name_regex, tag and tag_regex options to find_link()
+ and follow_link().
+ * Added tests from Jim Brandt.
+
+
+0.62 October 7, 2003 8:46pm
+ [THINGS THAT MIGHT BREAK YOUR CODE]
+ * The parms for find_link()'s url_regex and text_regex must now
+ be actual regex objects, as in qr// objects. They can't just
+ be little text strings. If this is a big bummer, let me know.
+
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * Added autocheck parm, to tell your Mech object to die on
+ any error. This saves you from having to check yourself.
+ This closes RT #3056.
+ * Renamed the internal _carp() method as warn().
+ * Added a die() method.
+ * Can now override the warn() and die() handlers in the
+ constructor.
+ * find_link() now complains if it gets a *_regex parm that isn't
+ actually a regex. See RT #3032.
+
+ [FIXES]
+ * mech-dump.t no longer runs if you're not installing mech-dump.
+ See RT #3724.
+
+ [DOCUMENTATION]
+ * More FAQs. Thanks to Gavin Estey.
+
+
+0.61 October 6, 2003 6:30pm
+ No new functionality here. It's mostly to get the new tests
+ into the pipeline so the CPAN testers can run 'em.
+
+ [FIXES]
+ * Missing dependency on File::Temp. Thanks, Ask.
+
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * Added the test case for the form processing problem as a .t
+ file, since I spent so long getting it down to a simple case.
+ * Internal code uses accessors instead of direct hash entries.
+ Prepare for deprecation of existing hash entries!
+
+ [DOCUMENTATION]
+ * The FAQ is now its own document at WWW::Mechanize::FAQ.
+
+
+0.60 September 22, 2003 10:00pm
+ [FIXES]
+ * Changed how t/failure.t tries to fail. It used to hit
+ a bogus hostname in .com, but with Verisign doing its
+ SiteFinder crap, even bogus addresses in .com succeed.
+
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * Added _make_request() to let WWW::Mechanize::Cached easily
+ hook into the request chain.
+
+0.59 September 3, 2003 11:56pm
+ [FIXES]
+ * Squelched a warning in follow() where it tries to do a regex
+ match against an undef value.
+ * The page stack functionality, including the back() button,
+ was entirely broken. Now it works. Thanks to the mighty
+ Iain Truskett for help.
+
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * Added the mech-dump script, which replaces mech-forms.
+ It will dump forms and lists of links. Eventually it will
+ do lists of images, too, but not yet.
+
+0.58 August 14, 2003 11:30pm
+ [THINGS THAT MIGHT BREAK YOUR CODE]
+ * $mech->uri() now returns a plain string, not a URI object.
+ The automatic stringification of the URI object was
+ causing problems on Win32 and/or threaded Perls, and I
+ didn't feel like figuring out why. If the non-objectness
+ of the uri() method is a problem, let me know.
+ * form(), form_name() and form_number() now return the
+ HTML::Form object of the form that was chosen. They used
+ to return a 1 or 0. This means that if you're explicitly
+ checking for 1 or 0, instead of evaluating the return
+ code in a boolean context, your code will break.
+
+ [FIXES]
+ * The <AREA>-handling in extract_links() was incorrectly
+ building the text.
+ * uri() now returns a string, not a URI object.
+ * form(), form_name() and form_number() now return the
+ HTML::Form object of the form that was chosen.
+
+ [INTERNALS]
+ * Determination of live vs. local tests is now done in
+ Makefile.PL, and we don't have to set those silly semaphore
+ files any more.
+ * Made other cleanups in Makefile.PL, like using
+ ExtUtils::Command instead of rolling my own touch().
+ * Moved all the *-live.t tests into t/live/*.t, and renamed
+ the *-local.t files to not be -local.
+ * Added more tests for <AREA> tags.
+
+0.57 July 31, 2003 11:21pm
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * Added <AREA HREF=...> tags to those that are links per
+ find_links().
+
+0.56 July 24, 2003 12:15pm
+ [THINGS THAT MIGHT BREAK YOUR CODE]
+ * Created agent_alias() method to do the browser string
+ translation. Passing "Windows IE 6" to agent() will get
+ you back exactly that string as the agent. You have to call
+ $a->agent_alias( "Windows IE 6" ) to get the translation.
+
+ Fortunately, unless you used the new functionality of agent() in
+ the past two days since I released 0.55, it won't be a problem.
+
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * Removed the dependencies on Carp and Test::Builder. There still
+ is a dependency on Test::Builder for Test::More, but it's no
+ longer explicit in the Makefile.PL. Mech will use Carp if
+ possible, but it's no longer a requirement.
+
+ [INTERNALS]
+ * Added _carp method for handling conditional warnings, rather
+ than checking quiet() all the time.
+
+0.55 July 22, 2003 12:10pm
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * Added WWW::Mechanize::Link object to encapsulate what used to
+ be an array reference of stuff from find_link(). This replaces
+ having to know that $link->[0] was URL and so on. However,
+ since WWW::Mechanize::Link is a blessed arrayref, it's backwards
+ compatible with existing code.
+
+ * The WWW::Mechanize::Link object now tracks what tag the link
+ came from (<A>, <FRAME> or <IFRAME>).
+
+ * No longer loads Carp unless and until it's necessary.
+
+ * submit_form() now uses the currently specified form if a
+ form_name or form_number parm is not specified. (RT #2768)
+
+ * Added a translate table of handy browser strings that the
+ agent() method recognizes. These strings may be one of the
+ following:
+
+ * Windows IE 6
+ * Windows Mozilla
+ * Mac Safari
+ * Mac Mozilla
+ * Linux Mozilla
+ * Linux Konqueror
+
+ For example, "Windows IE 6" gets replaced with
+ "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)".
+ Thanks to Ed Silva for the list.
+
+ [DOCUMENTATION]
+ * Moved the deprecated methods to their own section.
+
+ * Removed the TODO list, since it's all in RT.
+
+0.54 July 20, 2003 12:47am
+ [THINGS THAT MIGHT BREAK YOUR CODE]
+ * See the enhancements on extract_links() and failures.
+ Also, see the note about #2811 below.
+
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * find_all_links() and find_link() can specify multiple
+ text or url parameters, which will be anded together.
+ Before, there was a pecking order in which parm took
+ precedence, and any extras were ignored. To find the
+ first link with text of "news" and with "cnn.com" in the
+ URL, use:
+
+ $a->find_link( text => "news", url_regex => qr/cnn\.com/ );
+
+ Thanks to Greg Davies for the idea. (RT #2973)
+
+ * extract_links() is now an internal-only method, named
+ _extract_links(). If you're using it, don't. Use
+ find_all_links() instead, which is more flexible.
+
+ * Now, when there is a failure of some kind, certain fields
+ like title, forms and links are cleared out. Before, you'd
+ have leftover links from the previous page. I suspect that
+ at least one person out there has been mistakenly relying
+ on this behavior, and his code will now break, but that's
+ a good thing. See t/failure.t for more.
+
+ [FIXES]
+ * No longer tries to tech mech-forms if you're not installing
+ it.
+ * Fixed #2811: The definition of the link text contents
+ did not match the documentation.
+
+ [DOCUMENTATION]
+ * Added a sample CPAN search from Ed Silva.
+ * Added link to the Perl Advent Calendar.
+
+
+0.53 July 16, 2003
+ This version ONLY fixes some test-file problems. There are no
+ functionality enhancements or bug fixes in WWW::Mechanize itself.
+
+ [FIXES]
+ * Explicitly stringifies URI::file objects in the *.t files,
+ in hopes of getting the thread bummers fixed. See RT
+ #2874 and #2880.
+
+0.52 July 7, 2003
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * mech-forms now handles local files.
+ * Added t/mech-forms.t to test the app
+ * Added some parm-checking to submit_form()
+ * All the warns are now carps. Thanks to MJD for pointing
+ it out during his "Tricks Of The Wizards" talk.
+
+ [FIXES]
+ * Bumped up the Test::Builder requirement to 0.17, which
+ I hope will get rid of the thread problems with t/tick.t.
+ Thanks to Autrijus Tang for pointing out the note in
+ Builder.pm.
+
+0.51 June 29, 2003
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * Added the "mech-forms" command to list all the forms on
+ a given page.
+
+ [FIXES]
+ * Made the tick.t test not rely on 2shortplanks.com.
+
+0.50 June 24, 2003
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * Mech now does what most browsers do when they handle a
+ redirect: It changes the POST to a GET. This doesn't match the
+ RFC, but it's what browsers do. Thanks to Stuart Children.
+
+0.49 June 23, 2003
+ [FIXES]
+ * Added a fix a while ago that tracks redirect history. That fix
+ had the bad side effect of always allowing a redirect.
+ That has now been fixed.
+
+0.48 June 22, 2003
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * Added find_all_links() as the counterpart to find_link().
+
+ [FIXES]
+ * get() wasn't passing through its parms to LWP::UserAgent::get(),
+ so you couldn't use the :content_file parm. Now it
+ behaves like a good little subclass.
+
+0.47 June 21, 2003
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * find_link() now lets you pass n=>"all" to get back a list
+ of all links that match the other criteria. NOTE: Outdated! See
+ v0.48 for the preferred way.
+ * find_link() and follow_link() now complain if you pass
+ invalid parms to them.
+
+ [FIXES]
+ * Tracks URI history properly after redirects.
+
+0.46 June 20, 2003
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * Added tick() and untick() functions for handling checkboxes.
+ Thanks to Mark Fowler for this patch.
+ * The uri() will only be the URI of the requested page if it worked.
+ * Oh yes, I forgot to mention: We're on Sourceforge now.
+
+0.45 June 11, 2003
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * Added response() method, which is identical to res().
+ * Added a convenience method success(), which is just a wrapper
+ around $agent->res->is_success().
+ * Passes along a Referer: header. It can still be overridden
+ with the %Headers hash, though. Thanks, Corion.
+ * We now have a set of localized tests that run for machines that
+ aren't connected to the Net. There's now a t/lib/ directory for
+ those helper files, and the previous Utils.pm has been dropped.
+ Again, Corion to the rescue.
+
+ [DOCUMENTATION]
+ * Added to the FAQ
+ * Rearranged all the functions in the file so they are now
+ logically grouped.
+
+0.44 June 5, 2003
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * Now follows redirects after a POST. By default, LWP::UserAgent
+ does NOT follow redirects after a POST. This matches the
+ official RFC. However, since WWW::Mechanize is meant to be a
+ browser clone, and browsers follow the redirects after a POST,
+ I've changed this behavior. If this causes bummers, let me
+ know and maybe I'll throw in a switch.
+
+ [DOCUMENTATION]
+ * The package now includes the WWW::Mechanize logo in the etc/
+ directory. I have no idea what I'll do with it, but thanks
+ to Meng Wong for making it!
+
+0.43 May 29, 2003
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * Now uses request() instead of send_request(). This should
+ solve all of our redirection and cookie bummers.
+ * Added reload() method. Thanks, Corion.
+
+0.42 May 26, 2003
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * Renamed _do_request() to send_request(), so it's now a
+ proper overload of LWP::UserAgent. Thanks to Philippe Bruhat.
+ Recorded in RT ticket #1708.
+ * Removed the req() method, and tests that used it.
+ * extract_links() now checks for <IFRAME> tags along with the
+ existing <A> and <FRAME>.
+ * Now explicitly requires HTML::HeadParser.
+ * Doesn't load Carp unless it's actually needed.
+
+0.41 May 22, 2003
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * There are no enhancements in functionality.
+ * Testing suite getting more network-independent.
+
+ [DOCUMENTATION]
+ * Started a FAQ section.
+ * New SYNOPSIS section. Thanks to Uri Guttmann.
+ * Documentation fixes. Thanks to Mark Stosberg, Mike Fragassi.
+
+0.40 April 18, 2003
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * Three new methods.
+ * find_link() for finding a specified link
+ * follow_link() for following a specified link
+ * submit_form() for all-in-one form submission.
+ All three owe a great deal to Uri Guttmann. Thanks, Uri!
+ * Split out the examples into WWW::Mechanize::Examples.pod
+ * Added t/back.t
+ * Documentation fixes from Abigail
+
+0.39 April 1, 2003
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * No functional enhancements. Everything is docs.
+
+ * Added a new example from Dan Rinzel, for posting to Movable Type
+
+ * Started playing with having the test suite not have to have
+ live net access.
+
+0.38 March 24, 2003
+ [DEPRECATIONS]
+ * The %WWW::Mechanize::Headers hash is officially deprecated.
+ It will be removed pretty soon. I'm not sure what the
+ replacement will be, but it won't be a package-level hash.
+
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * The submit() method is no longer an alias for click("submit"),
+ because some forms don't have a button called "submit".
+ In fact, some may not have any buttons at all if they're
+ JavaScript-controlled.
+
+ [FIXES]
+ * RT #2056: $agent->field() wasn't returning proper input field,
+ because of an incorrect call to the underlying HTML::Form.
+ Thanks to Prakash Kailasa.
+
+0.37 March 4, 2003
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * Added an is_html() method
+ * Added a title() method
+ * No longer requires the Clone module.
+ * No longer requires the Test::Pod module, although it's nice
+ to have.
+
+0.36 February 4, 2003
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * Added form lookup by name. Thanks to Jan Ivar Pladsen and
+ Iain Truskett for their patches.
+ * Added new functions form_name() and form_number(). Existing
+ form() function calls each of these as appropriate.
+ * Explicitly requires LWP 5.69 because of the form naming.
+ * Added new POD section "Examples" for user-submitted sample code
+ of how to use WWW::Mechanize.
+ * Quieted the warnings in the test suite, so that you don't get
+ expected, but disconcerting, warnings to the screen.
+
+0.35 January 22, 2003
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * Now creates an internal cookie_jar by default.
+ * Beefing up the test suite
+ * Don't forget, direct access to internal members is deprecated.
+ Use the accessors starting now.
+
+0.33 January 15, 2003
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * Added accessor methods
+ * Deprecated the direct accessing of object contents. You can
+ no longer rely on the names of any of the hash elements.
+ * Added a quiet() method to suppress warnings to the screen.
+
+ [FIXES]
+ * More documentation fixes. (Thanks to Briac Pilpré)
+
+0.32 September 23, 2002
+ [FIXES]
+ * Now correctly calls the LWP::UserAgent constructor. (Thanks to
+ Philippe "BooK" Bruhat)
+
+ * Fixed doc on what get() method returns. (Again thanks to BooK)
+
+ * Now uses http://www.google.com/intl/en/ as the basis for
+ testing, since non-US users apparently get redirected to
+ country-specific sites when they hit http://www.google.com/
+
+0.31 September 13, 2002
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * get() now returns the HTTP::Response object.
+ * Prepended push_page_stack(), pop_page_stack() and
+ do_request() with underscores, to emphasize that they
+ are for internal use only.
+
+0.30 September 10, 2002
+ [ENHANCEMENTS]
+ * Fixed the stack popping problem.
+
+ [FIXES]
+ * Put all the inline tests into t/*.t
+
+ * get() doesn't work w/relative URLs
+ http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=1492
+
+ * The arrays returned by extract_links()
+ now have a third element, which contains
+ the name attribute of the link (undef
+ if the link has no name attribute).
+
+
+Code before this point is forked off from WWW::Automate 0.20b.
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