--- /dev/null
+2008-06-17 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
+
+ Release 5.813
+
+ Ville Skytta (3):
+ RobotUA constructor ignores delay, use_sleep [RT#35456]
+ Spelling fixes [RT#35457]
+ Add HTTP::Response->filename [RT#35458]
+
+ Mark Stosberg (2):
+ Better diagnostics when the HTML::TokeParser constructor fails [RT#35607]
+ Multiple forms with same-named <select> parse wrongly [RT#35607]
+
+ Gisle Aas (1):
+ Provide a progress method that does something that might be useful.
+
+ Spiros Denaxas (1):
+ Documentation typo fix [RT#36132]
+
+
+
+2008-04-16 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
+
+ Release 5.812
+
+ Gisle Aas (6):
+ Typo fix.
+ Simplified Net::HTTP::Methods constructor call.
+ Croak if Net::HTTP constructor called with no argument.
+ Avoid calling $self->peerport to figure out what the port is.
+ 5.811 breaks SSL requests [RT#35090]
+ Make test suite compatible with perl-5.6.1.
+
+ Toru Yamaguchi (1):
+ Wrong treatment of qop value in Digest Authentication [RT#35055]
+
+
+
+2008-04-14 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
+
+ Release 5.811
+
+ Gisle Aas (6):
+ Avoid "used only once" warning for $Config::Config.
+ Make HTTP::Request::Common::PUT set Content-Length header [RT#34772]
+ Added the add_content_utf8 method to HTTP::Message.
+ Typo fix.
+ Retry syscalls when they fail with EINTR or EAGAIN [RT#34093,32356]
+ Allow HTTP::Content content that can be downgraded to bytes.
+
+ Gavin Peters (1):
+ HTML::Form does not recognise multiple select items with same name [RT#18993]
+
+ Mark Stosberg (1):
+ Document how HTTP::Status codes correspond to the classification functions [RT#20819]
+
+ Robert Stone (1):
+ Allow 100, 204, 304 responses to have content [RT#17907]
+
+ sasao (1):
+ HTTP::Request::Common::POST suppressed filename="0" in Content-Disposition [RT#18887]
+
+
+
+2008-04-08 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
+
+ Release 5.810
+
+ Gisle Aas (10):
+ Small documentation issues [RT#31346]
+ Explain $netloc argument to $ua->credentials [RT#31969]
+ Make lwp-request honour option -b while dumping links [RT#31347]
+ Ignore params for date convenience methods [RT#30579]
+ Get rid of all the old CVS $Keyword:...$ templates. Set $VERSION to 5.810.
+ Update Copyright year.
+ Drop some sample URLs that were failing.
+ Complement the HTTP::Status codes [RT#29619]
+ Don't allow HTTP::Message content to be set to Unicode strings.
+ Refactor test for Encode.pm
+
+ Ville Skytta (3):
+ Spelling fixes [RT#33272]
+ Trigger HTML::HeadParser for XHTML [RT#33271]
+ Escape status line in error_as_HTML, convert to lowercase [RT#33270]
+
+ Alexey Tourbin (2):
+ Typo fix [RT#33843]
+ Protocol/file.pm: postpone load of URI::Escape and HTML::Entities [RT#33842]
+
+ Daniel Hedlund (1):
+ HTML::Form Module and <button> element clicks
+
+ Adam Kennedy (1):
+ HTTP::Cookies handle malformed empty Set-Cookie badly [RT#29401]
+
+ Jacob J (1):
+ [HTTP::Request::Common] Does not handle filenames containing " [RT#30538]
+
+ Rolf Grossmann (1):
+ Allow malformed chars in $mess->decoded_content [RT#17368]
+
+ FWILES (1):
+ Croak if LWP::UserAgent is constructed with hash ref as argument [RT#28597]
+
+ Adam Sjogren (1):
+ Disabled, checked radiobutton being submitted [RT#33512]
+
+ DAVIDRW (1):
+ warn if TextInput's maxlength exceeded [RT#32239]
+
+
+2007-08-05 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
+
+ Release 5.808
+
+ Get rid of t/live/validator test. Too much JavaScript madness
+ for it to be a sane LWP test.
+
+
+
+2007-07-31 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
+
+ Release 5.807
+
+ Apply patch correction from CPAN RT #26152
+
+ More laxed t/live/validator test.
+
+
+
+2007-07-19 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
+
+ Release 5.806
+
+ Added progress callback to LWP::UserAgent.
+
+ HTTP::Daemon didn't avoid content in responses to HEAD requests
+
+ Add support for HTTP Expect header to HTTP::Daemon (CPAN RT #27933)
+
+ Fix t/base/message.t so tests are skipped if Encode is not
+ installed. (CPAN RT #25286)
+
+ Add HTML::Tagset as a prerequisite to Makefile.PL
+
+ Do not clobber $_ in LWP::Protocol::nntp (CPAN RT #25132)
+
+ Fix lwp-download so it can download files with an "_" in the filename
+ (CPAN RT#26207)
+
+ Quiet complaints from HTML::HeadParser when dealing with undecoded
+ UTF-8 data. (CPAN RT#20274)
+
+ When both IO::Socket::SSL and Net::SSL are loaded, use the latter
+ (CPAN RT #26152)
+
+ Allows SSL to work much more reliably:
+ (CPAN RT #23372)
+
+ Allow text/vnd.wap.wml and application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text
+ in content-type field in lwp-request (CPAN RT #26151)
+
+ Add default media type for XML in LWP::MediaTypes (CPAN RT #21093)
+
+ Added chunked test by Andreas J. Koenig
+
+
+
+2005-12-08 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
+
+ Release 5.805
+
+ HTTP::Date: The str2time function returned wrong values for
+ years in the early 20th century, because timelocal() actually
+ expects the year to be provided on a different scale than what
+ localtime() returns.
+
+ HTTP::Headers can now be constructed with field names that repeat.
+ The $h->header function now also accept repeating field
+ names and can also remove headers if passed undef as value.
+
+ HTML::Form: The parse method now takes hash style optional
+ arguments and the old verbose behaviour is now off by default.
+
+ HTML::Form: Accept <select multiple=""> for compatibilty with
+ other browsers. Patch by Josh Rai <josh@rai.name>.
+
+ HTML::Form: Sane handling of 'disabled' for ListInput.
+ Based on patch by Joao Lopes <developer@st3tailor.com.br>.
+
+ HTTP::Negotiate: Fixed matching of partial language tags.
+ Patch contributed by Dan Kubb.
+
+ HTTP::Response: The as_string method now returns a status line
+ that doesn't add the "official" code name in the message
+ field. This improves the ability to round-trip response objects
+ via HTTP::Response->parse($res->as_string) and makes the first
+ line of the string returned agree with $res->status_line.
+
+ Net::HTTP: The host attribute can now be set undef in
+ order to suppress this header for HTTP/1.0 requests.
+
+ Net::HTTP: The default Host: header does not include the
+ port number if it is the default (80 for plain HTTP). Some
+ servers get confused by this.
+
+ Net::HTTP: Ignore bogus Content-Length headers. Don't get
+ confused by leading or trailing whitespace.
+
+ LWP::Protocol::http: More efficient sending of small PUT/POST
+ requests by trying harder to pass off the whole request in a
+ single call to syswrite.
+
+ lwp-request now give better error messages if you used the
+ -o option without having the HTML-Tree distribution installed.
+ Also document this dependency.
+
+
+
+2005-12-06 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
+
+ Release 5.804
+
+ HTTP::Message->parse did not work when the first line of the body
+ was something that looked like a header.
+
+ HTTP::Header::Auth needs HTTP::Headers to be loaded before
+ it replace its functions.
+
+ LWP::Protocol::nntp improvements by Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>:
+ - Support the nntp: scheme.
+ - Support hostname in news: and nntp: URIs.
+ - Close connection and preserve headers also in non-OK responses.
+ - HEAD support for URIs identifying a newsgroup.
+ - Comment spelling fixes.
+
+ Fix quotes in Net::HTTP example.
+ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=283916
+
+ Detect EOF when expecting a chunk header. Should address the
+ warnings shown in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=286775
+
+ WWW::RobotRules: Improved parsing of not strictly valid robots.txt files
+ contributed by <Matthew.van.Eerde@hbinc.com>.
+
+ Makefile.PL: Set name to LWP so that the .packlist ends up in the
+ expected place.
+
+
+
+2004-12-11 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
+
+ Release 5.803
+
+ HTTP::Message: $mess->decoded_content sometimes had the side
+ effect of destroying $mess->content.
+
+ HTTP::Message: $mess->decoded_content failed for
+ "Content-Encoding: deflate" if the content was not in the
+ zlib-format as specified for the HTTP protocol. Microsoft got
+ this wrong, so we have to support raw deflate bytes as well.
+
+ HTTP::Response->parse don't require the protocol to be
+ specified any more. This allows HTTP::Response->parse($resp->as_string)
+ to round-trip. Patch by Harald Joerg <haj@oook.m.uunet.de>.
+
+ HTTP::Response: $resp->base might now return undef. Previously
+ it would croak if there was no associated request. Based on
+ patch by Harald Joerg <haj@oook.m.uunet.de>.
+
+ HTML::Form now support <label> for check- and radio boxes.
+ Patch contributed by Dan Kubb <dan.kubb@onautopilot.com>.
+
+ Make HTTP::Daemon subclassable, patch by Kees Cook <kees@osdl.org>.
+
+ lwp-download allow directory to save into to be specified.
+ Patch by Radoslaw Zielinski <radek@karnet.pl>.
+
+ lwp-download will validate filename derived from server
+ controlled data and will fail if something looks not
+ quite right.
+
+
+
+2004-11-30 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
+
+ Release 5.802
+
+ The HTTP::Message object now have a decoded_content() method.
+ This will return the content after any Content-Encodings and
+ charsets has been decoded.
+
+ Compress::Zlib is now a prerequisite module.
+
+ HTTP::Request::Common: The POST() function created an invalid
+ Content-Type header for file uploads with no parameters.
+
+ Net::HTTP: Allow Transfer-Encoding with trailing whitespace.
+ <http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=3929>
+
+ Net::HTTP: Don't allow empty content to be treated as a valid
+ HTTP/0.9 response.
+ <http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=4581>
+ <http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=6883>
+
+ File::Protocol::file: Fixup directory links in HTML generated
+ for directories. Patch by Moshe Kaminsky <kaminsky@math.huji.ac.il>.
+
+ Makefile.PL will try to discover misconfigured systems that
+ can't talk to themselves and disable tests that depend on this.
+
+ Makefile.PL will now default to 'n' when asking about whether
+ to install the "GET", "HEAD", "POST" programs. There has been
+ too many name clashes with these common names.
+
+
+
+2004-11-12 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
+
+ Release 5.801
+
+ HTTP::Message improved content/content_ref interaction. Fixes
+ DYNAMIC_FILE_UPLOAD and other uses of code content in requests.
+
+ HTML::Form:
+ - Handle clicking on nameless image.
+ - Don't let $form->click invoke a disabled submit button.
+
+ HTTP::Cookies could not handle a "old-style" cookie named
+ "Expires".
+
+ HTTP::Headers work-around for thread safety issue in perl <= 5.8.4.
+
+ HTTP::Request::Common improved documentation.
+
+ LWP::Protocol: Check that we can write to the file specified in
+ $ua->request(..., $file) or $ua->mirror.
+
+ LWP::UserAgent clone() dies if proxy was not set. Patch by
+ Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>
+
+ HTTP::Methods now avoid "use of uninitialized"-warning when server
+ replies with incomplete status line.
+
+ lwp-download will now actually tell you why it aborts if it runs
+ out of disk space of fails to write some other way.
+
+ WWW::RobotRules: only display warning when running under 'perl -w'
+ and show which robots.txt file they correspond to. Based on
+ patch by Bill Moseley.
+
+ WWW::RobotRules: Don't empty cache when agent() is called if the
+ agent name does not change. Patch by Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>.
+
+
+
+2004-06-16 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
+
+ Release 5.800
+
+ HTML::Form will allow individual menu entries to be disabled.
+ This was needed to support <input type=radio disabled value=foo>
+ and <select><option disabled>foo.
+
+ HTML::Form now avoids name clashes between the <select> and
+ <option> attributes.
+
+ HTML::Form now implicitly close <select> elements when it sees
+ another input or </form>. This is closer to the MSIE behaviour.
+
+ HTML::Form will now "support" keygen-inputs. It will not
+ calculate a key by itself. The user will have to set its
+ value for it to be returned by the form.
+
+ HTTP::Headers now special case field names that start with a
+ ':'. This is used as an escape mechanism when you need the
+ header names to not go through canonicalization. It means
+ that you can force LWP to use a specific casing and even
+ underscores in header names. The ugly $TRANSLATE_UNDERSCORE
+ global has been undocumented as a result of this.
+
+ HTTP::Message will now allow an external 'content_ref'
+ to be set. This can for instance be used to let HTTP::Request
+ objects pick up content data from some scalar variable without
+ having to copy it.
+
+ HTTP::Request::Common. The individual parts will no longer
+ have a Content-Length header for file uploads. This improves
+ compatibility with "normal" browsers.
+
+ LWP::Simple doc patch for getprint.
+ Contributed by Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna@efn.org>.
+
+ LWP::UserAgent: New methods default_header() and
+ default_headers(). These can be used to set up headers that
+ are automatically added to requests as they are sent. This
+ can for instance be used to initialize various Accept headers.
+
+ Various typo fixes by Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>.
+
+ Fixed test failure under perl-5.005.
+
+ LWP::Protocol::loopback: This is a new protocol handler that
+ works like the HTTP TRACE method, it will return the request
+ provided to it. This is sometimes useful for testing. It can
+ for instance be invoked by setting the 'http_proxy' environment
+ variable to 'loopback:'.
+
+
+
+2004-04-13 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
+
+ Release 5.79
+
+ HTML::Form now exposes the 'readonly' and 'disabled'
+ attribute for inputs. This allows your program to simulate
+ JavaScript code that modifies these attributes.
+
+ RFC 2616 says that http: referer should not be sent with
+ https: requests. The lwp-rget program, the $req->referer method
+ and the redirect handling code now try to enforce this.
+ Patch by Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>.
+
+ WWW::RobotRules now look for the string found in
+ robots.txt as a case insensitive substring from its own
+ User-Agent string, not the other way around.
+ Patch by Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>.
+
+ HTTP::Headers: New method 'header_field_names' that
+ return a list of names as suggested by its name.
+
+ HTTP::Headers: $h->remove_content_headers will now
+ also remove the headers "Allow", "Expires" and
+ "Last-Modified". These are also part of the set
+ that RFC 2616 denote as Entity Header Fields.
+
+ HTTP::Headers: $h->content_type is now more careful
+ in removing embedded space in the returned value.
+ It also now returns all the parameters as the second
+ return value as documented.
+
+ HTTP::Headers: $h->header() now croaks. It used to
+ silently do nothing.
+
+ HTTP::Headers: Documentation tweaks. Documented a
+ few bugs discovered during testing.
+
+ Typo fixes to the documentation all over the place
+ by Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>.
+
+ Updated tests.
+
+
+
+2004-04-07 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
+
+ Release 5.78
+
+ Removed stray Data::Dump reference from test suite.
+
+ Added the parse(), clear(), parts() and add_part() methods to
+ HTTP::Message. The HTTP::MessageParts module of 5.77 is no more.
+
+ Added clear() and remove_content_headers() methods to
+ HTTP::Headers.
+
+ The as_string() method of HTTP::Message now appends a newline
+ if called without arguments and the non-empty content does
+ not end with a newline. This ensures better compatibility with
+ 5.76 and older versions of libwww-perl.
+
+ Use case insensitive lookup of hostname in $ua->credentials.
+ Patch by Andrew Pimlott <andrew@pimlott.net>.
+
+
+
+2004-04-06 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
+
+ Release 5.77
+
+ LWP::Simple did not handle redirects properly when the "Location"
+ header used uncommon letter casing.
+ Patch by Ward Vandewege <ward@pong.be>.
+
+ LWP::UserAgent passed the wrong request to redirect_ok().
+ Patch by Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>.
+ https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=5828
+
+ LWP did not handle URLs like http://www.example.com?foo=bar
+ properly.
+
+ LWP::RobotUA construct now accept key/value arguments in the
+ same way as LWP::UserAgent.
+ Based on patch by Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>.
+
+ LWP::RobotUA did not parse robots.txt files that contained
+ "Disallow:" using uncommon letter casing.
+ Patch by Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>.
+
+ WWW::RobotRules now allow leading space when parsing robots.txt
+ file as suggested by Craig Macdonald <craig@freeasphost.co.uk>.
+ We now also allow space before the colon.
+
+ WWW::RobotRules did not handle User-Agent names that use complex
+ version numbers. Patch by Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>.
+
+ Case insensitive handling of hosts and domain names
+ in HTTP::Cookies.
+ https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=4530
+
+ The bundled media.types file now match video/quicktime
+ with the .mov extension, as suggested by Michel Koppelaar
+ <Michel.Koppelaar@kb.nl>.
+
+ Experimental support for composite messages, currently
+ implemented by the HTTP::MessageParts module. Based on
+ ideas from Joshua Hoblitt <jhoblitt@ifa.hawaii.edu>.
+
+ Fixed libscan in Makefile.PL.
+ Patch by Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>.
+
+ The HTTP::Message constructor now accept a plain array reference
+ as its $headers argument.
+
+ The return value of the HTTP::Message as_string() method now
+ better conforms to the HTTP wire layout. No additional "\n"
+ are appended to the as_string value for HTTP::Request and
+ HTTP::Response. The HTTP::Request as_string now replace missing
+ method or URI with "-" instead of "[NO METHOD]" and "[NO URI]".
+ We don't want values with spaces in them, because it makes it
+ harder to parse.
+
+
+
+2003-11-21 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
+
+ Release 5.76
+
+ Revised handling of redirects.
+ - clear our content and content headers if we
+ rewrite request as GET based on patch by
+ Steven Butler <stevenb@kjross.com.au>.
+ - pass $response to redirect_ok()
+
+ Support cpan:-URLs. Try 'lwp-download cpan:src/latest.tar.gz' :)
+
+ Fix test failure in 't/html/form.t' for perl5.005.
+
+
+
+2003-10-26 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
+
+ Release 5.75
+
+ Reworked LWP::UserAgent, HTTP::Request and HTTP::Response
+ documentation. Also other documentation tweaks.
+
+
+
+2003-10-23 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
+
+ Release 5.74
+
+ Improved lwp-download program:
+ - set mtime if Last-Modified header reported by server
+ - better prompts
+ - avoid warnings when aborted at the wrong time
+
+ Collected all contributions in the AUTHORS file and
+ also added an AUTHORS section to the LWP manpage.
+
+ Style tweaks to all modules. Move POD after __END__
+ and uncuddled elses.
+
+
+
+2003-10-19 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
+
+ Release 5.73
+
+ Takanori Ugai <ugai@jp.fujitsu.com> found that 'max_redirect'
+ introduced in 5.72 was broken and provided a patch for that.
+
+ Not all ftp servers return 550 responses when trying to
+ to RETR a directory. Microsofts IIS is one of those.
+ Patch provided by Thomas Lotterer <thl@dev.de.cw.com>.
+
+ Some documentation tweaks.
+
+
+
+2003-10-15 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
+
+ Release 5.72
+
+ Requests for some non-HTTP URLs would fail if the cookie_jar
+ was enabled. The HTTP::Cookies::add_cookie_header now ignore
+ non-HTTP requests.
+
+ The new local/http test failed on Windows because of a missing
+ binmode().
+
+ Suppress Client-SSL-Warning warning header when Crypt::SSLeay
+ is able to verify the peer certificate. Patch contributed by
+ Joshua Chamas <joshua@chamas.com>.
+
+ HTTP::Request::Common::POST did not add a 'Content-Length' header
+ when the content ended up empty. Fixed by a patch contributed
+ by Brian J. Murrell.
+
+ Internally generated responses now contain a text/plain part
+ that repeats the status line. They also have a "Client-Warning"
+ header that can be used to differentiate these responses from
+ real server responses.
+
+ LWP::UserAgent now deals with 303 and 307 redirects. The behaviour
+ of 302 redirects has also changed to be like 303; i.e. change the
+ method to be "GET". This is what most browsers do. Based on
+ a patch contributed by Tom Hughes <thh@cyberscience.com>.
+
+ LWP::UserAgent now implements a 'max_redirect' attribute with a
+ default value of 7. This should also fix the problem where
+ redirects to the same URL to get a cookie set did not work.
+ Based on a patch by Sean M. Burke <sburke@cpan.org>.
+
+ NTML authentication should continue to fail if the Authen::NTLM
+ module can't be loaded. LWP used to think the scheme was
+ available as soon as the module stash showed up. Not it looks
+ for the authenticate method to be defined. Patch by Jan Dubois.
+
+ lwp-download will not try to rename *.tbz and *.tar.bz2 to
+ match the reported content type. Patch contributed by
+ Robin Barker <Robin.Barker@npl.co.uk>.
+
+ HTTP::Cookies::Netscape documentation fix by Sean M. Burke.
+
+ HTTP::Cookies::Microsoft documentation fix by Johnny Lee.
+
+ The code that tries to avoid installing 'HEAD' on top of
+ 'head' on systems like Mac OS was further improved to look
+ in $Config{installscript} instead of $Config{sitebin}.
+ Patch provided by Ken Williams <ken@mathforum.org>.
+
+
+
+2003-10-14 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
+
+ Release 5.71
+
+ Support open-ended Range: header for ftp requests.
+ Patch by Matthew Eldridge <eldridge@Graphics.Stanford.EDU>.
+
+ lwp-request now prints unsuccessful responses in the same way
+ as successsful ones. The status will still indicate failures.
+ Based on a patch by Steve Hay <steve.hay@uk.radan.com>.
+
+ HTML::Form's dump now also print alternative value names.
+
+ HTML::Form will now pick up the phrase after a <input type=radio>
+ or <input type=checkbox> and use that as the name of the checked
+ value.
+
+ HTML::Form's find_input now returns all inputs that match in
+ array context. Based on patch by Mark Stosberg <markstos@cpan.org>
+ in <http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=3320>.
+
+ HTTP::Daemon's send_file() method did not work when given
+ a file name. Patch by Dave W. Smith <dws@postcognitive.com>.
+
+ HTTP::Daemon is less strict about field names in the request
+ headers is received. The Norton Internet Security firewall
+ apparently likes to send requests with a header called
+ '~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~'. Further details in
+ <http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2531>.
+
+ LWP::Protocol::http assumed $1 would be meaningful without
+ testing the outcome of the match. This sometimes produced
+ an extra garbage Authentication header.
+ Based on the patch by <bai@dreamarts.co.jp> in
+ <http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=1994>.
+
+ LWP::Protocol::mailto will try harder to locate the sendmail
+ program as suggested in <http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2363>.
+ Also let $ENV{SENDMAIL} override the search.
+
+ Patch to enable OS/2 build by Ilya Zakharevich.
+
+
+
+2003-10-13 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
+
+ Release 5.70
+
+ File::Listing::apache by Slaven Rezic <slaven@rezic.de>
+
+ HEAD requests now work properly for ftp: URLs.
+ Patch by Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>.
+
+ LWP::UserAgent: The protocols_allowed() and protocols_forbidden()
+ methods are now case insensitive. Patch by Ville Skyttä
+ <ville.skytta@iki.fi>.
+
+ Avoid warning from HTTP::Date on certain invalid dates.
+ Patch by David Dick <david_dick@iprimus.com.au>.
+
+ HTML::Form::param() is an alternative interface for inspecting
+ and modifying the form values. It resembles the interface
+ of CGI.
+
+ HTML::Form documentation updated. Lots of typo fixes and improves
+ by Martin Thurn <mthurn@northropgrumman.com>.
+
+ HTML::Form will treat any unknown input types as text input.
+ This appears to be what most browsers do.
+
+ HTML::Form::parse() can now take a HTTP::Response object
+ as argument.
+
+ The "checkbox" and "option" inputs of HTML::Form can now be
+ turned on with the new check() method.
+
+ The inputs of HTML::Form can now track alternative value
+ names and allow values to be set by these names as well.
+ Currently this is only supported for "option" inputs.
+
+ HTML::Form's dump() method now print the name of the form if
+ present.
+
+
+
+2003-01-24 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
+
+ Release 5.69
+
+ Include lwptut.pod contributed by Sean M. Burke C<sburke@cpan.org>.
+
+ The lwp-request aliases GET, HEAD, POST where installed when
+ no program should be. Fixed by David Miller <dave@justdave.net>.
+
+ lwp-rget --help don't print double usage any more.
+
+ HTTP::Header::Util is now more reluctant to put quotes around
+ token values.
+
+ Net::HTTP: Avoid warning on unexpected EOF when reading chunk
+ header.
+
+
+
+2003-01-02 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
+
+ Release 5.68
+
+ Fix test failure for t/html/form.t when running under
+ perl-5.8.0.
+
+
+
+2003-01-01 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
+
+ Release 5.67
+
+ HTTP::Cookies::Microsoft contributed by Johnny Lee <typo_pl@hotmail.com>.
+ This module makes it possible for LWP to share MSIE's cookies.
+
+ HTML::Form supports file upload better now. There are some
+ new methods on that kind of input; file(), filename(), content()
+ and headers().
+
+ Removed unfinished test that depended on Data::Dump.
+
+ Net::HTTP avoids exceptions in read_response_headers() with
+ laxed option. It now always assumes HTTP/0.9 on unexpected
+ responses.
+
+ HTML::Form documentation reworked.
+
+
+
+2002-12-20 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
+
+ Release 5.66
+
+ Various patches from Sean M. Burke. Most of them to
+ match up LWP with the "Perl & LWP" book.
+
+ LWP::DebugFile module contributed by Sean.
+
+ LWP::Authen::Ntml contributed by James Tillman.
+
+ HTTP::Daemon patch for Alpha by <shildreth@emsphone.com>
+
+ The format_chunk() and write_chunk() methods of Net::HTTP
+ did not work. Bug spotted by Yale Huang <yale@sdf-eu.org>.
+
+ The Client-Peer response header is back.
+
+
+
+2002-05-31 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
+
+ Release 5.65
+
+ Make HTTP::Date compatible with perl 5.8.
+
+ Try to avoid to default to overwriting /usr/bin/head
+ on MacOS X when the perl install prefix is /usr/bin.
+
+ HTTP::Cookies fix for parsing of Netscape cookies file
+ on MS Windows. Patch by by Sean M. Burke <sburke@cpan.org>.
+
+ HTTP::Negotiate doc patch from Edward Avis <epa98@doc.ic.ac.uk>.
+
+
+
+2002-02-09 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
+
+ Release 5.64
+
+ Simplified the Makefile.PL:
+ - the scripts are not longer *.PL files
+
+ - don't try to make symlinks for GET, HEAD, POST
+ as that has not worked for a long time
+
+ - the GET, HEAD, POST aliases for lwp-request should
+ now work on Windows.
+
+ HTTP::Cookies:
+ - added 'clear_temporary_cookies' method;
+ patch by Mike Schilli <schilli1@pacbell.net>.
+
+ - trailing space in old cookie parameters not ignored;
+ patch by Ivan Panchenko
+
+ - protect against $SIG{__DIE__} handlers;
+ patch by Adam Newby <adam@NewsNow.co.uk>.
+
+ LWP::Authen::Digest:
+ - abort digest auth session if we fail repeatedly with
+ the same username/password.
+
+ MacOS portability patches to the test suite by
+ Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>.
+
+
+
+2001-12-14 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
+
+ Release 5.63
+
+ HTTP::Negotiate: Deal with parameter names in a case
+ insensitive way. Put a little weight on the order of features
+ in the Accept headers.
+
+ LWP::UserAgent: make sure that the 'request' attribute is
+ always set on the returned response.
+
+ LWP::Protocol::http will now allow certain bad headers
+ in the responses it reads. The bad headers end up in the
+ header 'Client-Junk'.
+
+ Net::HTTP new options to the 'read_response_headers'
+ method. The option 'laxed' will make it ignore bad header
+ lines. The option 'junk_out' can be used to pass in an
+ array reference. Junk header lines are pushed onto it.
+
+ Net::HTTP::Methods: fixed the internal zlib_ok() to also
+ return the correct value the first time.
+
+ LWP::Protocol::http: Ensure that we don't read until
+ select has said it is ok since we have put the socket
+ in non-blocking mode. Previously this could happen if
+ you set the 'timeout' attribute of the user agent to 0.
+
+ LWP::Authen::Digest now use Digest::MD5 instead of MD5.
+
+ Some adjustments to Makefile.PL to figure out if
+ Compress::Zlib is available and adjust the test suite
+ accordingly.
+
+
+
+2001-11-21 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
+
+ Release 5.62
+
+ The $VERSION of LWP::UserAgent wrapped around. This confused the
+ CPAN indexer. Bumped the major number to 2 to fix this.
+
+ Net::HTTP did not work well on perl5.003. The PeerHost argument
+ to IO::Socket::INET was not recognized, so we had to use PeerAddr
+ instead. The syswrite() method also required a length argument.
+
+ Net::HTTP did not deal with transfer encoding tokens in a
+ case-insensitive way. Patch by Blair Zajac <blair@orcaware.com>.
+
+ The jigsaw-chunk test failed on MacOS because "\n" is different.
+ Patch by Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>.
+
+
+
+2001-11-16 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
+
+ Release 5.61
+
+ LWP::Protocol::http did not invoke its _fixup_header method.
+ The result was that the 'Host' header got completely wrong
+ when talking through a proxy server.
+
+ The live Google test is gone. They blocked us.
+
+ The guts of Net::HTTP has moved to Net::HTTP::Methods.
+
+ Net::HTTP now has limits on the size of the header which are
+ set by default.
+
+ New module Net::HTTPS.
+
+ Documentation tweaks.
+
+ HTTP::Headers: The 'remove_header' method now return the values
+ of the fields removed as suggested by Blair Zajac <blair@orcaware.com>.
+ Also a typo fix by Blair.
+
+ HTTP::Message: The delegation via &AUTOLOAD should be slightly
+ faster now. It will install a real forwarding function the
+ first time it is called for each HTTP::Headers method.
+
+ LWP::UserAgent: Don't forward 'Cookie' headers on redirect.
+ Patch by Steve A Fink <steve@fink.com>.
+
+ LWP::Protocol::http has been reorganized to make it simpler
+ to subclass it. Other minor changes to it include:
+ - Client-Warning is gone
+ - Client-Request-Num renamed to Client-Response-Num
+ - A 'Transfer-Encoding' header is rewritten into a
+ 'Client-Transfer-Encoding' header.
+
+ LWP::Protocol::https is completely redone.
+
+
+
+2001-10-26 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
+
+ Release 5.60
+
+ Made HTTP/1.1 the default. The old HTTP/1.0 module has been
+ renamed as LWP::Protocol::http10. There is an environment
+ variable; PERL_LWP_USE_HTTP_10 that can be set to have LWP
+ still pick up the old drivers.
+
+ Deal with "100 continue" responses even when not requested by
+ and Expect header in the request. MS IIS seems to eager to send
+ this kind of response.
+
+ For HTTP/1.1 over SSL there was a problem with the underlying
+ SSL libraries if the socket was configured to non-blocking mode.
+ Disable this for https.
+ Based on a patch from Michael Thompson <mickey@berkeley.innomedia.com>
+
+ Support the Range header for ftp:// requests.
+ Patch by David Coppit <david@coppit.org>.
+
+ Rearrange Bundle::LWP on request from Chris Nandor.
+
+ HTTP::Cookies: Allow a domain like .foo.com match host "foo.com".
+ Patch by Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@lrde.epita.fr>
+
+ For redirects make sure Host header is not copied to the new
+ request.
+
+ The HTML::HeadParser is not loaded until actually needed.
+
+ Net::HTTP should now work with perl5.005 by a simple tweak
+ to 'require IO::Socket::INET'.
+
+ WWW::RobotRules::AnyDBM: Explicitly clear database on open.
+ Some DBM implementations doesn't support the O_TRUNC flag
+ properly. Patch by Radu Greab <radu@netsoft.ro>.
+
+
+
+2001-09-19 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
+
+ Release 5.53_97
+
+ LWP::Protocol::http11: fix socket leak. Because we managed
+ to set up a circular reference within the sockets objects they
+ stayed around forever.
+
+ LWP::UserAgent: Split up simple_request into prepare_request
+ and send_request. Patch contributed by Keiichiro Nagano <knagano@sodan.org>
+
+ LWP::Protocol::http: Pass all header data to LWP::Debug::conns.
+ Based on patch by Martijn.
+
+ LWP::UserAgent: Sean fixed a Cut&Paste error.
+
+ HTTP::Cookies: avoid pack("c",...) warning from bleadperl.
+
+
+
+2001-08-27 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
+
+ Release 5.53_96
+
+ HTTP/1.1 support also for https.
+ Contributed by Doug MacEachern <dougm@covalent.net>
+
+ The HTTP/1.1 modules are now enabled by default. Hope that will give
+ them more testing than they otherwise would have gotten.
+
+ HTTP::Daemon's accept now has same behaviour as IO::Socket's
+ accept in list context. Fixed by Blair Zajac <blair@gps.caltech.edu>.
+
+ More argument sanity checking in HTTP::Request->uri and
+ LWP::UserAgent->simple_request. Patch by Sean M. Burke.
+
+ HTTP::Protocol::http. Deal with short writes.
+ Patch by Norton Allen <allen@huarp.harvard.edu>
+
+ HTTP::Protocol::http11: Deal with newlines in header values.
+
+ Net::HTTP: call sysread (instead of xread) when more data is required.
+
+
+
+2001-08-06 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
+
+ Release 5.53_95
+
+ Fix HTTP::Cookies where there is a mix of Set-Cookie and
+ Set-Cookie2 headers. In that case we used to ignore all Set-Cookie
+ headers. Now we only ignore those Set-Cookie headers that reference
+ the same cookie as a Set-Cookie2 header.
+
+ HTTP::Request, HTTP::Response will by default now use "URI" class,
+ instead of "URI::URL", when constructing its URI objects. This
+ has a potential for breaking existing code as URI::URL objects had
+ some extra methods that external code might depend upon.
+
+ Patches by Sean M. Burke:
+ - Fix treatment of language tags in HTTP::Negotiate
+ - Avoid trailing newline in $response->message
+ - HTTP::Response clarifications
+
+ LWP::Simple deals with non-absolute redirects "correctly" now.
+
+ Net::HTTP does not try to load Compress::Zlib until it is needed.
+
+ Net::HTTP documentation has been updated.
+
+
+
+2001-05-05 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
+
+ Release 5.53_94
+
+ Sean M. Burke's update to LWP::UserAgent:
+ - updated redirect_ok behaviour
+ - new convenience methods: get/head/post/put
+ - protocols_allowed/protocols_forbidden
+ - LWP::Protocol::nogo (new module)
+
+ Added digest auth test against Jigsaw
+
+ Fixed a 'use of uninitialized'-warning in the handling of
+ digest authentication.
+
+ Net::HTTP updates:
+ - new option: SendTE
+ - support transfer-encoding 'deflate' and 'gzip' (when Compress::Zlib
+ is available).
+ - new methods: format_chunk, format_chunk_eof
+ - use -1 (instead of "0E0" as signal that no data was available,
+ but this was not EOF).
+
+
+
+2001-04-28 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
+
+ Release 5.53_93
+
+ Makefile.PL now asks some questions
+
+ Added live tests for the new HTTP/1.1 support
+
+ LWP::MemberMixin: make it possible to set a value to the 'undef' value.
+
+ Net::HTTP:
+ - transparent support for 'deflate' and 'gzip' transfer encodings
+ (need to have the Compress::Zlib module installed for this to work).
+
+
+
+2001-04-25 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
+
+ Release 5.53_92
+
+ LWP::Protocol::ftp now support keep-alives too. The command
+ connection will stay open if keep-alives are enabled.
+
+ LWP::Protocol::http11 various fixes:
+ - chunked request content did not work
+ - monitor connection while sending request content
+ - deal with Expect: 100-continue
+
+ LWP::RobotUA: Protect host_port call. Not all URIs have this method.
+
+
+
+2001-04-20 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
+
+ Release 5.53_91
+
+ Introduced LWP::ConnCache module. Works similar to HTTP::Cookies,
+ it that it takes effect if associated with the $ua.
+
+ The handling of $ua->max_size changed to make 0 mean 0
+ (not unlimited). An value of undef means no limit.
+ The X-Content-Base header is gone. I hope nobody relies on
+ it. It might come back if people start to scream. There
+ is a new Client-Aborted header instead.
+
+ The Range header generated for $ua->max_size had a off-by-one
+ error. A range of "0-1" means 2 bytes.
+
+ The LWP::UserAgent constructor now takes configuration arguments.
+
+ Keep-alive and the new HTTP/1.1 module can now be simply
+ enabled with something like:
+
+ LWP::UserAgent->new(keep_alive => 1);
+
+ New method $ua->conn_cache to set up and access the associated
+ connection manager.
+
+ If the string passed to $ua->agent() ends with space then
+ the "libwww-perl/#.##" string is automatically appended.
+
+ New method $ua->_agent
+
+ Passing a plain hash to $ua->cookie_jar automatically loads
+ HTTP::Cookies and initialise an object using the hash content
+ as constructor arguments.
+
+ LWP::Protocol::http11 now use the conn_cache of the $ua.
+
+ LWP::Protocol::http11 now added a few new Client- headers.
+
+ LWP::Protocol avoid keeping the connection alive if $ua->max_size
+ limit prevents the whole body content from being read.
+
+ Net::HTTP updates:
+ - new methods: write_chunk(), write_chunk_eof()
+ - reset state properly when a new body is read.
+ - always set read buffer empty on eof
+ - doc update
+
+ WWW::RobotRules patch by Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>:
+ - Always qualify netloc with port.
+ - Reverse User-Agent substring matching.
+
+
+
+2001-04-18 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
+
+ Release 5.53_90
+
+ Note: This is a developer only release. Not for production use.
+
+ LWP::Protocol::http11 now does keep-alives by default. Still need
+ to figure out what interface to provide at the $ua level.
+
+ LWP::Protocol::http11 deals with CODE content in request.
+
+ Net::HTTP updated:
+ - added format_request() method
+ - added _rbuf and _rbuf_length methods
+ - read_response_headers does not return protocol version
+ any more.
+ - peer_http_version method did not work because of typo.
+ - documentation added
+
+ New module Net::HTTP::NB. This is a Net::HTTP subclass that
+ is better suited for multiplexing as it is able to do no-blocking
+ reads of headers and entity body chunks.
+
+ HTTP::Request: Protect $request->uri against evil $SIG{__DIE__} handlers.
+
+ Some reorganisation in how stuff is passed from $ua to protocol object.
+ The $ua is now passed in so protocol objects might store start in it.
+
+ The $ua->max_size default is now 0.
+
+ The $ua->clone method avoids sharing of proxy settings between
+ the old and the new.
+
+ This file is renamed to 'Changes' (used to be 'ChangeLog').
+
+
+
+2001-04-10 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
+
+ Release 5.53
+
+ LWP::Simple::get() could sometimes return nothing on failure in
+ list context. Now it always returns 'undef'.
+
+ HTTP::Cookies does not request 2 dots on domain names any more.
+ New option to hide the Cookie2 header. Cookie2 header now quote
+ the version number. Updated reference to RFC 2965.
+
+ Support for embedded userinfo in http proxy URIs. It means that
+ you know can set up your proxy with things like:
+ http_proxy="http://proxyuser:proxypass@proxyhost:port"
+ Patch by John Klar <j.klar@xpedite.com>.
+
+ Experimental HTTP/1.1 support. New module called Net::HTTP that
+ provide the lower level interface and a LWP::Protocol::http11
+ module that builds on it. The HTTP/1.1 protocol module must be
+ loaded and registered explicitly, otherwise the old and trustworthy
+ HTTP/1.0 module will be used.
+
+ LWP::Protocol::GHTTP will try to use the get_headers() methods
+ so that it can actually extract all the headers.
+
+
+
+2001-03-29 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
+
+ Release 5.52
+
+ HTTP::Header: new method $h->init_header() that will only
+ set the header if it is not already set. Some shuffling
+ around in the code.
+
+ LWP::UserAgent will not override 'User-Agent', 'From'
+ or 'Range' headers if they are explicitly set in the
+ request passed in.
+
+ HTML::Form tries to optimize parsing be restricting the
+ tags that are reported by HTML::Parser. Will need
+ HTML::Parser v3.19_93 or better for this to actually
+ have any effect.
+
+ LWP::Protocol::ftp now deals with path parameters again.
+ It means that you can append ";type=a" to ftp-URI and
+ it will download the document in ASCII mode.
+
+ If the server output multiple Location headers on a redirect,
+ ignore all but the first one.
+
+ Extract cookies failed on request URIs with empty paths.
+ This was only triggered if you used URI objects directly in
+ scripts.
+
+ This change was actually part of 5.51: Fix qop="auth"
+ handling for Digest authentication.
+ Patch by Dave Dunkin <dave_dunkin@hotmail.com>.
+
+
+
+2001-03-14 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
+
+ Release 5.51
+
+ SECURITY FIX: If LWP::UserAgent::env_proxy is called in a CGI
+ environment, the case-insensitivity when looking for "http_proxy"
+ permits "HTTP_PROXY" to be found, but this can be trivially set by the
+ web client using the "Proxy:" header. The fix applied is that
+ $ENV{HTTP_PROXY} is not longer honored for CGI scripts.
+ The CGI_HTTP_PROXY environment variable can be used instead.
+ Problem reported by Randal L. Schwartz.
+
+ NOTE: It is recommended that everybody that use LWP::UserAgent
+ (including LWP::Simple) in CGI scripts upgrade to this release.
+
+ Explicit setting of action on HTML::Form had no effect because
+ of a code typo. Patch by BooK <book@netcourrier.com>.
+
+ HTTP::Daemon: The CONNECT method need special treatment because
+ it does not provide a URI as argument (just a "hostname:port").
+ The non-upward compatibility warning is that you must now call
+ $request->url->host_port to get the host/port string for CONNECT,
+ rather than calling $request->url and using the entire string.
+ Based on patch from Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
+
+ HTTP::Daemon: Create self URL based on $self->sockaddr. This works
+ better when LocalAddr is used to specify the port number. Based on
+ patch from Ben Low <ben@snrc.uow.edu.au>.
+
+ Avoid potential '<FILE> chunk 1' messages at the end of the response
+ 'message'.
+
+
+
+2001-01-12 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
+
+ Release 5.50
+
+ Fix for test cases that failed because of URI-1.10 now encode
+ space as '+' instead of '%20. Patch by Christian Gilmore
+ <cgilmore@tivoli.com>.
+
+ Makefile.PL: Require URI-1.10.
+
+ HTTP::Daemon now accepts any non-space character as method name
+ on the request line. It used to fail on methods like "M-POST"
+ because it only allowed \w-chars.
+
+ HTTP::Date now allow fractional seconds in ISO date formats.
+ Based on patch from Mark D. Anderson <mda@discerning.com>
+
+ HTTP::Request::Common will now calculate Content-length
+ even if $DYNAMIC_FILE_UPLOAD is set. Patch provided by
+ Lindley, Lee T <Lee.Lindley@viasystems.com>.
+
+
+
+2000-12-31 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
+
+ Release 5.49
+
+ 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.
+
+
+
+2000-04-09 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
+
+ Release 5.48
+
+ README.SSL update by Marko Asplund <aspa@hip.fi>
+
+ Added cookie example to lwpcook.pod
+
+ HTTP::Date::str2time returns undef on failure instead
+ of an empty list as suggested by Markus B Krüger <markusk@pvv.org>
+
+ $request->uri($uri) will now always store a copy of the $uri.
+
+ HTTP::Status: Added status codes from RFC 2616 and RFC 2518 (WebDAV)
+
+ LWP::RobotUA will not parse robots.txt unless content type and
+ content sample looks right.
+
+ LWP::UserAgent: Deal with multiple WWW-Authenticate headers.
+ Patch by Hugo <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+
+ $ua->proxy can now return the old proxy settings without
+ destroying the old one.
+ Based on patch by Benjamin Low <ben@snrc.uow.edu.au>
+
+ LWP::Protocol::http update
+
+ - don't terminate header parsing on bad headers
+ - extra_sock_opts
+ - preparations for keep alive support
+ - method CONNECT
+
+ WWW::RobotRules deal with various absolute URIs in the
+ disallow lines.
+
+ Makefile.PL: Make sure we have HTML::TokeParser
+
+ Clean test on VMS.
+ Patch by Charles Lane <lane@ DUPHY4.Physics.Drexel.Edu>.
+
+
+
+1999-11-16 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
+
+ o Release 5.47
+
+ o Added HTML::Form to the distribution.
+
+ o LWP::Protocol::ftp: Make it URI.pm compatible. We broke it in 5.45.
+
+ o LWP::Protocol::http: Kill any Connection header
+
+ o LWP::MediaTypes: Fixed builtin html/text mapping.
+ Added bz2 to suffixEncoding
+
+
+
+1999-10-28 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
+
+ o Release 5.46
+
+ o Updated mailing list address
+
+ o Avoid warnings for lwp-request -t
+
+ o referrer as alternative spelling for referer as suggested by tchrist.
+
+ o More conservative selection of boundary for multipart messages
+ in &HTTP::Request::Common::POST.
+
+ o LWP::MediaTypes can now export &read_media_types.
+
+ o Spelling corrections from Ben Tilly <Ben_Tilly@trepp.com>
+
+
+
+1999-09-20 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
+
+ o Release 5.45
+
+ o The LWP SSL support better explained. Documentation in README.SSL
+ and lwpcook.pod contributed by Marko Asplund <aspa@hip.fi>.
+
+ o LWP::Protocol::https: Try loading IO::Socket::SSL if Net::SSL is
+ not available.
+
+ o lwp-mirror -t option did not work.
+
+ o defined(@ISA) eliminated. Patch by Nathan Torkington <gnat@frii.com>
+
+ o LWP::Protocol::ftp: Protect against empty path_segments
+
+
+
+1999-06-25 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
+
+ o Release 5.44
+
+ o We require URI-1.03, since this fix some query quoting stuff
+ that HTTP::Request::Common rely upon.
+
+ o 'lwp-request -HUser-Agent:foo' can now be used to set this
+ header too.
+
+ o Localize $/ to ensure standard record separator a few places
+ in HTTP::Cookies
+
+ o LWP::UserAgent will now set the Range header in requests if
+ the $ua->max_size attribute is set.
+
+
+
+1999-05-09 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
+
+ o Release 5.43
+
+ o New lwp-request command line option that allow you to put any
+ header into the request (-H).
+
+ o New HTTP::Date because of Y2K-problems with the old one.
+ It refused to parse the ftp-listing (ls -l) dates missing year.
+ Additional entry point is parse_date(). This function avoid any
+ limitations caused by the time-representation (seconds since
+ epoch).
+
+ o Y2K fix to t/base/cookies.t. Netscape's original cookie
+ example expires at 09-Nov-99.
+
+ o Added another binmode() to LWP::Protocol::file as suggested
+ by Matt Sergeant <matt-news@sergeant.org>
+
+
+
+1999-03-20 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
+
+ o Release 5.42
+
+ o MacOS patches from Paul J. Schinder <schinder@leprss.gsfc.nasa.gov>
+
+ o Documentation patch from Michael A. Chase <mchase@ix.netcom.com>
+
+ o PREREQ_PM patch from Andreas Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ o LWP::Simple::head fix by Richard Chen <richard@lexitech.com>
+
+ o "LWP fails with PerlEXE"-patch from Gurusamy Sarathy
+
+ o Allow "." in HTTP header names. Patch by Marc Langheinrich
+ <marc@ccm.cl.nec.co.jp>
+
+ o Fixed reference to $uri->netloc in lwp-request
+
+ o Cute animation in lwp-download
+
+
+
+Mon Nov 19 1998 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
+
+ o Release 5.41
+
+ o HTTP::Cookies provide better Netscape cookies compliance.
+ Send back cookies to any port, and allow origin host name to
+ be specified as domain, and still be treated as a domain.
+ Patch from Andreas Gustafsson <gson@araneus.fi>.
+
+ o HTTP::Cookies now ignore the Expires field in Set-Cookie, if the
+ date provided can't be parsed by HTTP::Date.
+
+ o HTTP::Daemon will lowercase the hostname returned from
+ Sys::Hostname::hostname(). This avoid some test failures in
+ the test suite for people with upper- or mixed-cased hostnames.
+
+ o LWP::Protocol::gopher: IO::Socket::INET ctor did not specify
+ Proto => 'tcp'. This made it less portable to older IO::Socket
+ versions.
+
+ o No programs installed when you build the Makefile with
+ 'perl Makefile.PL LIB=/my/lib'
+
+ o LWP bundle mention Digest::MD5 instead of MD5
+
+ o headers-auth.t test suite bug triggered by perl5.005_5x.
+ Patch by Albert Dvornik <bert@genscan.com>
+
+ o The local/http.t test actually did try to unlink("."). This was
+ very confusing on systems where it succeed.
+
+
+
+Mon Oct 12 1998 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
+
+ o Release 5.40_01
+
+ o Unbundled URI::URL modules. You now have to install the
+ URI.pm module in order to get libwww-perl working.
+
+ o Made library URI.pm compatible. Made all URI object instantiations
+ based on $HTTP::URI_CLASS variable.
+
+ o New lwp-rget option: --referer.
+ Patch by INOUE Yoshinari <inoue@kusm.kyoto-u.ac.jp>.
+
+ o One more binmode() to HTTP::Daemon as suggested by
+ Markus Laker <mlaker@contax.co.uk>.
+
+
+
+Tue Aug 4 1998 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
+
+ o Release 5.36
+
+ o The lwp-download script will call $ua->env_proxy now.
+
+ o The lwp-request script allows content types (specified with the -c
+ option) with optional parameters like: multipart/mixed; boundary="--".
+
+ o LWP::UserAgent will lowercase all authentication parameter names
+ before passing it to the authentication module. Previous releases
+ ignored parameters like; Realm="Foo" (bacause Realm contained
+ upper case letters).
+
+ o LWP::Protocol::ftp test for If-Modified-Since was wrong.
+
+ o How the $url->abs method works can now be configured with the global
+ variables $URI::URL::ABS_ALLOW_RELATIVE_SCHEME and
+ $URI::URL::ABS_REMOTE_LEADING_DOTS.
+
+ o The anonymous password guesser for ftp URLs will now call the external
+ `whoami` program any more. Patch by Charles C. Fu <ccwf@bacchus.com>.
+
+ o LWP::Protocol::http now allow dynamic requests without any
+ Content-Length specified when Content-Type is multipart/*
+
+ o HTTP::Request::Common can now upload infinite files.
+ (Controlled by the $DYNAMIC_FILE_UPLOAD configuration variable.)
+
+
+
+Fri Jul 10 1998 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
+
+ o Release 5.35
+
+ o More lwp-rget patches from David D. Kilzer <ddkilzer@madison.dseg.ti.com>.
+ Adds the following new options: --iis, --keepext, --tolower
+
+ o LWP::MediaTypes patches from MacEachern <dougm@pobox.com>. Adds new
+ functions: add_type(), add_encoding(), read_media_types()
+
+
+
+Tue Jul 7 1998 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
+
+ o Release 5.34
+
+ o LWP::Protocol::ftp now try to use the MDTM command to support
+ the Last-Modified response header as well as
+ If-Modified-Since in requests. Original and final patch by
+ Charles C. Fu <ccwf@bacchus.com>
+
+ o $url->path_components will not escape "." any more.
+
+ o WWW::RobotRules will now work for Mac text files too (lines delimited
+ by CR only). Patch by Olly Betts <olly@muscat.co.uk>
+
+ o lwp-rget support <area ..> links too.
+
+
+
+Thu May 7 1998 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
+
+ o Release 5.33
+
+ o LWP::Simple::get() did try to handle too many of the 3xx
+ codes as redirect when it bypasses full LWP.
+
+ o LWP::UserAgent->mirror will now use utime(2) to set the
+ file modification time corresponding to the Last-Modified
+ header.
+
+ o LWP::Protocol::http will not modify the HTTP::Request that
+ it is processing. This avoids sticky Host header for
+ redirects.
+
+ o URI::Heuristic and lwp-download documentation update.
+
+
+
+Wed Apr 15 1998 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
+
+ o Release 5.32
+
+ o Much improved HTTP::Daemon class. We now support persistent
+ connections. Changes include:
+ - $c->get_request can be told to return after reading and
+ parsing headers only.
+ - $c->reason (new method)
+ - $c->read_buffer (new method)
+ - $c->proto_ge (new method)
+ - $c->force_last_request (new method)
+ - $c->send_response now support CODE reference content
+ and will use chunked transfer encoding for HTTP/1.1 clients.
+ - expanded the documentation.
+
+
+
+Fri Apr 10 1998 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
+
+ o Release 5.31
+
+ o Makefile.PL now checks that HTML::HeadParser is present.
+
+ o Updated HTTP::Cookies according to draft-ietf-http-state-man-mec-08.txt
+ It now supports the .local domain and value less 'port' attribute in
+ the Set-Cookie2 header.
+
+ o HTTP::Headers update:
+ - $h->content_type now always return a defined value
+ - $h->header($field) will now concatenate multi-valued header
+ fields with "," as separator in scalar context.
+
+ o HTTP::Request::Common update:
+ - used to destroy the content of the hash/array arguments
+ passed to its constructor functions.
+ - allow a hash reference to specify form-data content.
+ - you can override Content-Disposition for form-data now.
+ - set content-encoding for files if applicable
+ - default boundary string is now always "--000"
+
+ o LWP::UserAgent will not follow more than 13 redirects
+ automatically.
+
+
+
+Wed Apr 1 1998 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
+
+ o Release 5.30
+
+ o Unbundled the following modules:
+
+ * HTML-Parser (HTML::Parser, HTML::Entites, HTML::LinkExtor,...)
+ * HTML-Tree (HTML::Element, HTML::TreeBuilder,...)
+ * Font-AFM (Font::AFM, Font::Metrics::*)
+ * File-CounterFile
+
+ o Simplified internal structure of HTTP::Headers. Hopefully,
+ nobody will notice.
+
+ o New modules HTTP::Headers::Auth, HTTP::Headers::ETag that adds
+ additional convenience methods to the HTTP::Headers class.
+
+ o Removed split_etag_list() from HTTP::Headers::Util, in the hope
+ that nobody had starting using it.
+
+
+
+Tue Mar 24 1998 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
+
+ o Release 5.22
+
+ o HTTP::Cookies made more compatible with Netscape cookies. Allow
+ the domain to match host, allow dots in the part of the hostname
+ not covered by domain. Don't quote the cookie value even when it
+ contains non-token chars. Based on patch from Kartik Subbarao
+ <subbarao@computer.org>.
+
+ o Updated HTTP::Status to reflect <draft-ietf-http-v11-spec-rev-03>.
+ RC_MOVED_TEMPORARILY renamed to RC_FOUND. Added codes
+ RC_TEMPORARY_REDIRECT (307) and RC_EXPECTATION_FAILED (417).
+ Slightly more documentation too.
+
+ o The split_header_words() function HTTP::Headers::Util could go
+ into infinite loop on some header values. Implemented split_etag_list()
+ too. Added more documentation and test script for this module.
+
+ o LWP::Simple now switch to full LWP implementation even for systems
+ that force all environment keys to be upper case. Modification
+ suggested by Dale Couch <dcouch@training.orl.lmco.com>.
+
+ o LWP::UserAgent allows redirects to a relative URL with scheme to be
+ made. Suggested by Chris W. Unger <cunger@cas.org>.
+
+ o Applied dtd2pm.pl patches from <peterm@zeta.org.au>. It can now
+ extract information from the HTML40.dtd
+
+
+
+Thu Mar 12 1998 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
+
+ o Release 5.21
+
+ o lwp-rget patches from David D. Kilzer <ddkilzer@madison.dseg.ti.com>
+ (modified by Gisle). Support the --hier and the --auth options
+ and <frame>s.
+
+ o File::CounterFile protect against bad $/ and $\ as suggested
+ by Frank Hoehne.
+
+ o File::Listing used "next" when return was more appropriate.
+ Patch by erik@mediator.uni-c.dk.
+
+ o HTML::Element support for multiple boolean attributes for a single
+ element. Patch by Philip Guenther.
+
+ o Can set $HTTP::Headers::TRANSLATE_UNDERSCORE to FALSE value to
+ suppress tr/_/-/ of header keys.
+
+ o LWP::Protocol::http will not initialize the Host header if it is
+ already set.
+
+ o LWP::Protocol::http did not handle responses with no header lines
+ correctly. Patch by Daniel Buenzli <buenzli@rzu.unizh.ch>
+
+ o $url->rel() handles path segments without leading "/" better.
+
+
+
+Fri Feb 13 1998 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
+
+ o Release 5.20
+
+ o Fixed the "500 Offset outside string" bug that affected perl
+ 5.004_03 and older version of Perl.
+
+ o Fixed a documentation typo spotted by Michael Quaranta
+ <quaranta@vnet.IBM.COM>
+
+ o HTTP::Date: Protect against croaking from timegm/timelocal.
+
+
+
+Mon Jan 26 1998 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
+
+ o Release 5.19
+
+ o HTML::Parser does not call $self->text() callback for empty text
+ any more.
+
+ o LWP::Protocol::https was noisy when connections failed and the
+ script was running with '-w' (noise inherited from IO::Socket::INET)
+
+ o $ua->use_alarm(BOOL) now gives a warning if running with -w
+
+
+
+Tue Jan 20 1998 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
+
+ o Developer release 5.18_05
+
+ o HTTPS support based on my Crypt-SSLeay module. The Net-SSLeay module
+ is not supported any more.
+
+ o lwp-request documentation typo spotted Martijn Koster.
+
+ o Removed superfluous \\ in the URI::Escape regex. This was also
+ spotted by Martijn.
+
+ o File::Listing now handles timezones correctly.
+
+ o Added $VERSION to modules that was missing it.
+
+ o Added 'use strict' to several modules that was missing it.
+
+ o LWP::Protocol::http now adds the Client-Peer header to responses and
+ has hooks for more callbacks.
+
+ o LWP::Protocol::https adds Client-SSL-Cipher, Client-SSL-Cert-Subject
+ and Client-SSL-Cert-Issuer headers to the response. The requests can
+ also be made conditional based on the peer certificate using the
+ If-SSL-Cert-Subject header in requests.
+
+ o HTML::Parse is back. (It was even used in lwpcook.pod)
+
+
+
+Wed Dec 17 1997 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
+
+ o Developer release 5.18_04
+
+ o Makefile.PL fix based on report from Pon Hwa Lin <koala@fragment.com>
+
+ o lwp-request will now print the response code message with -s and -S
+ options.
+
+ o Hide IO::Socket::INET noise when running under -w
+
+ o Don't set 'Content-Length: 0' in HTTP requests.
+
+ o LWP::Protocol::http now calls LWP::Debug::conns again
+
+
+
+Tue Dec 16 1997 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
+
+ o Developer release 5.18_03
+
+ o Got rid of alarms() and replaced LWP::Socket with IO::Socket::INET.
+ New protocol implementations for http, https, gopher, nntp.
+ $ua->use_alarm() is now a noop.
+
+ o LWP::Protocol::ftp patch from Tony Finch <fanf@demon.net>.
+
+ o Removed depreciated modules from the distibution; HTML::Parse,
+ LWP::Socket, LWP::SecureSocket, LWP::IO, LWP::TkIO.
+
+
+
+Fri Dec 12 1997 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
+
+ o Release 5.18
+
+ o HTTP authorization patches from Tony Finch <fanf@demon.net>.
+ Allows "user:pass@" in HTTP URLs.
+
+ o HTML::Parser patch by Brian McCauley <B.A.McCauley@bham.ac.uk>.
+ Pass original text to end() method.
+
+ o The HTML::Parser->netscape_buggy_comment method is depreciated.
+ Use HTML::Parser->strict_comment instead. The default value
+ has changed with the name.
+
+ o Some HTML::Parser optimization tweaks.
+
+ o New module named HTML::Filter
+
+ o Updated HTTP::Headers to the latest HTTP spec. Added knowledge
+ about the "Trailer", "Expect", "TE", "Accept-Range" headers.
+ "Public" header is gone.
+
+ o Added some more header convenience methods: if_unmodified_since,
+ content_language, and proxy_authorization methods.
+
+ o HTTP::{Request,Response}->clone can handle subclasses now.
+
+ o HTTP::Request->url() can now undefine the URL.
+
+ o HTTP::{Request,Response}->as_string format looks more like
+ the HTTP protocol formatting now. Dashed lines above and
+ below is gone.
+
+ o Documented HTTP::Response->status_line method
+
+ o Compressed HTML::Response->error_as_HTML output
+
+ o HTTP::Status updated to latest HTTP spec. Added
+ RC_REQUEST_RANGE_NOT_SATISFIABLE (416)
+
+
+
+Tue Dec 2 1997 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
+
+ o Release 5.17
+
+ o All authentication handling moved out of LWP::UserAgent and into
+ LWP::Authen::Basic and LWP::Authen::Digest. We now also support
+ PROXY_AUTHENTICATION_REQUIRED responses.
+
+ o HTML::Formatter will always add a blank line for <br>.
+
+ o Avoid use of uninitialized value in HTTP::Daemon.
+
+ o HTTP::Date allows seconds when recognizing 'ls -l' dates. This
+ allows us to parse syslog time stamps.
+
+ o HTTP::Request::Common::POST allows a hash reference as second
+ argument (in addition to an array reference).
+
+ o LWP::Simple will initialize the $ua if it is exported.
+
+ o Various documentation updates.
+
+
+
+Fri Nov 21 1997 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
+
+ o Release 5.16
+
+ o LWP::Simple::head() would die in array context because str2time
+ was not imported any more.
+
+ o HTTP::Daemon->accept now takes an optional package argument like
+ IO::Socket->accept does.
+
+ o Made HTTP::Request and HTTP::Response subclassable.
+
+ o Added Proxy-Authorization example to lwpcook.
+
+
+
+Thu Nov 6 1997 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
+
+ o Release 5.15
+
+ o New module URI::Heuristic
+
+ o The lwp-request script now use URI::Heuristic for it's URL arguments.
+ It means that 'lwp-request perl' will not get a file called "./perl"
+ but will fetch the page "http://www.perl.com" or something similar.
+ If you want to get the file you have to prefix it with "./". Full
+ URLs are never affected by this.
+
+ o LWP::Simple::get() will bypass LWP for simple HTTP requests. This
+ should make it somewhat faster.
+
+ o LWP::RobotUA has a new method called $ua->use_sleep() that
+ controls how niceness towards the servers are enforced.
+ Previously $ua->use_alarm() used to control this, but this did
+ not work well on Win32 systems.
+
+ o URI::URL::rel() will handle URLs to a fragment within the same
+ document better. Initial patch from Nicolai Langfeldt
+ <janl@math.uio.no>.
+
+ o HTML::Element don't consider </th>, </tr> and </td> optional any
+ more. I wonder how Netscape managed to not implement this
+ correctly all this time.
+
+ o Added lots of modern tags to HTML::AsSubs.
+
+ o HTTP::Request::Common will read uploaded files in binmode().
+ This should be better for Win32 systems. Contributed by
+ <Steve_Kilbane@cegelecproj.co.uk>.
+
+
+
+Sun Oct 12 1997 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
+
+ o Release 5.14
+
+ o HTML::Formatter patches from Andreas Gustafsson <gson@araneus.fi>.
+ The formatters handling of whitespace is much better now. Thanks!
+
+ o HTML::FormatText: can specify margins in the constructor.
+
+ o URI::URL: the base will be absolutized internally now.
+
+ o URI::URL will take advantage of void context provided by perl5.004.
+ This means that using $u->path and $u->query should be safer now.
+
+ o URI::URL->print_on defaults to STDERR now (used to be STDOUT).
+
+ o URI::URL: removed version 3 compatibility stuff ($COMPAT_VER_3).
+
+ o $ua->mirror should work better on dosish systems (can not
+ rename when target file exists).
+
+ o Typo in lwp-download prevented it from compiling.
+
+ o Some minor documentations typos corrected.
+
+
+
+Sat Sep 20 1997 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
+
+ o Release 5.13
+
+ o Brand new module called HTTP::Cookies. It stores cookies
+ (Set-Cookie and Set-Cookie2 headers) from responses and can
+ create appropriate Cookie headers for requests. It can also
+ share cookie files with Netscape.
+
+ o LWP::UserAgent now support the cookie_jar() attribute. When
+ set to an HTTP::Cookies object, it will automatically manage
+ the cookies sent to the servers. Off by default.
+
+ o New header utility functions in HTTP::Headers::Util.
+
+ o Win32 and OS/2 patches for the lwp-xxx utilities. Turn on
+ binary mode by default (option to turn it off), avoid modifying $0,
+ and don't be confused about suffixes in the script names.
+ Contributed by Ben Coleman <bcoleman@mindspring.com>
+
+ o OpenVMS patch for Font:AFM by Brad Hughes <brad@tmc.naecker.com>
+
+
+
+Fri Sep 5 1997 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
+
+ o Release 5.12
+
+ o decode_entities() would sometimes introduce ";" after
+ things that looked like they were entities.
+
+ o HTML::LinkExtor knows about <applet code="...">
+
+ o Patch from Gary Shea <shea@gtsdesign.com> that makes the
+ tests work even if perl is not called "perl"
+
+ o HTTP::Date handles 12:00PM correctly now. Patch from
+ William York <william@mathworks.com>
+
+ o HTTP::Request::Common don't quote the boundary string for
+ multipart/form-data messages any more.
+
+ o Font::AFM works for encodings where .notdef is defined to
+ have some size. Documentation and efficiency update.
+
+
+
+Wed Aug 6 1997 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
+
+ o Release 5.11
+
+ o Perl version 5.004 is now required for libwww-perl.
+
+ o Win32 patches from Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>.
+ Now passes all tests on that platform.
+
+ o HTTPS support contributed by Josh Kronengold <mneme@mcny.com>
+
+ o Support hex entities ÿ HTML::Entities::(en|de)code only
+ modify their argument in void context.
+
+ o Fixed formatter bug with <font> tags which did not specify size.
+
+ o Better HTML::HeadParser documentation
+
+ o Fixed HTML::LinkExtor documentation typo spotted by Martijn.
+
+ o HTTP::Request::Common now use CRLF for multipart/form-data
+
+
+
+Fri Jun 20 1997 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
+
+ o Release 5.10
+
+ o Make '+' a reserved URL character. Decode unescaped '+' as
+ space in $url->query_form().
+
+ o Use $Config{d_alarm} to determine default for $ua->use_alarm()
+
+
+
+Tue Jun 10 1997 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
+
+ o Release 5.09
+
+ o Removed the MIME modules from the distribution. They are distributed
+ separately now.
+
+ o Added a new module called HTTP::Request::Common
+
+ o Improved HTTP::Status documentation. It is now also possible
+ to import the is_client_error/is_server_error functions.
+
+ o LWP::MediaTypes::guess_media_type() can now take an optional
+ HTTP::Header parameter.
+
+ o LWP::Protocol ensures that scheme is legal as module name.
+
+ o LWP::Protocol::http is not as strict when trying to verify the
+ method name. It now also accepts responses without a message
+ on the status line.
+
+ o WWW::RobotRules::AnyDBM_File: Some DBMs fail to allow multiple
+ opens of the same file. Patch from Mark James <jamesm@skate.org>
+
+ o Created Bundle::LWP
+
+
+
+Sat Apr 5 1997 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
+
+ o Release 5.08
+
+ o Made libwww-perl warning compatible with upcoming perl5.004beta2
+ (aka 5.003_98)
+
+ o encode_base64() did not work properly if pos() of the string to
+ encode was different from 0.
+
+ o HTML::Parser was confused about "</" when it did not start an end tag.
+
+ o HTML::FormatPS will provide ISOLatin1Encoding in its output.
+
+ o Calling HTML::LinkExtor->links will clear out old links.
+
+ o url()->rel($base) would ignore the $base argument.
+
+ o Don't croak() when setting url()->path().
+
+
+
+Tue Feb 11 1997 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
+
+ o Release 5.07
+
+ o Can limit the size of the response content with $ua->max_size()
+
+ o Added time2iso() functions to HTTP::Date.
+
+ o Made LWP::Protocol::http more portable to the MacPerl. /./ match
+ different things on MacPerl.
+
+
+
+Mon Jan 27 1997 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
+
+ o Release 5.06
+
+ o URI::URL is now compatible with perl5.004 overloading.
+
+ o HTML::HeadParser makes X-Meta-Name headers for <meta> elements
+ that does not specify an 'http-equiv' attribute.
+
+ o URI::URL::ftp does not die if Net::Domain is not installed and
+ you ask for an anonymous username or password.
+
+ o WWW::RobotRules: The robots.txt parser did not ignore comment lines
+ as it should.
+
+ o LWP::Protocol::http is more forgiving towards servers that return
+ bad responses.
+
+ o Allow "?" before search string in gopher URLs.
+
+ o LWP::Protocol::file did not escape funny filenames when generating
+ HTML directory listings.
+
+ o LWP::Protocol::ftp now gets the Content-Encoding correct. 'CODE'
+ content in PUT requests also work now.
+
+ o Relative locations in redirects did not work with URI::URL::strict.
+
+ o OS/2 portability patches from Ilya Zakharevich
+
+ o LWP::Authen::* patch from Doug MacEachern
+
+ o Support experimental data:- URLs
+
+ o Some tests (those using HTTP::Daemon) now die more gracefully if
+ IO::* modules is not installed.
+
+
+
+Wed Dec 4 1996 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
+
+ o Release 5.05
+
+ o LWP::UserAgent::simple_request: local($SIG{__DIE__}) protects us
+ against user defined die handlers.
+
+ o Use Net::Domain (instead of Sys::Hostname) to determine FQDN. It
+ is used by URI::URL when it determines anonymous ftp login address.
+
+ o lwp-download: New program in the bin directory
+
+ o HTML::Parser: Allow '_' in attribute names. This makes it possible
+ to parse Netscape's bookmarks.html file.
+
+ o HTTP::Daemon: Fixed chunked transfer encoding and multipart content
+ in get_request(). Support HTTP/0.9 clients.
+
+ o Don't clobber regex variables when HTTP::Message delegates methods
+ to the header.
+
+ o Base64::decode_base64 now checks that the length input string to
+ decode is a multiple of 4.
+
+ o t/robot/rules-dbm.t clean up better and will use AnyDBM for dumping
+
+ o File::CounterFile: $/ strikes again by Andreas König
+
+ o File::Listing updates from William York <william@mathworks.com>. We
+ can now parse the MS-Windows ftp server listings.
+
+ o HTTP::Date now supports the MS-Windows 'dir' date format. Patch by
+ William York.
+
+ o LWP::MediaTypes::media_suffix will return first type in scalar context.
+
+
+
+Tue Oct 22 1996 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
+
+ o Release 5.04
+
+ o Added HTTP::Daemon. This is a HTTP/1.1 server class. This means
+ that libwww-perl no longer is a client library only. The HTTP::Daemon
+ is also used in the new test suite.
+
+ o HTTP::Message support the protocol() method. Used by HTTP::Daemon.
+
+ o HTTP::Response can be constructed with a header and content as
+ argument.
+
+ o Typo corrections in the documentation.
+
+ o File::Listing::parse_dir accepts "GMT" as timezone now.
+
+ o HTML::Parser will call the start() method with two new parameters;
+ $attrseq, $origtext.
+
+ o Integrated HTML::FormatPS patches from
+ Jim Stern <jstern@world.northgrum.com>
+
+ o Class modules don't inherit from AutoLoader any more. They just
+ import the AUTOLOAD method.
+
+ o LWP::Protocol will untaints scheme before loading protocol module.
+
+ o Digest does not send "opaque" if it was not present in the request.
+ The "Extension" header is not returned any more.
+
+ o New method: $url->crack that will return a list of the various
+ elements in a URI::URL.
+
+ o WWW::RobotRules did not use the agent() method when determining
+ who we are. This affected WWW::RobotRules::AnyDBM_File parsing
+ for robots.txt. Visit count did not increment for
+ WWW::RobotRules::InCore.
+
+
+
+Tue Oct 1 1996 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
+
+ o Release 5.03
+
+ o Hakan Ardo's persistent robot rules is now part of the standard
+ distribution. This is still experimental and might change in the
+ future. It includes the new WWW::RobotRules::AnyDBM_File class
+ and updates to LWP::RobotUA.
+
+ o HTML::Parser now supports buggy Netscape comment parsing. Enable
+ it by calling $p->netscape_buggy_comment(1). The previous version
+ of the parser could also (under very unlucky and unlikely
+ circumstances) call the $self->comment() method several times for
+ the same comment text.
+
+ o HTML::Parser: Use new $p->eof to signal end of document instead of
+ $p->parse(undef).
+
+ o HTML::Element::starttag() is now smarter about which quotes it
+ use around attribute values.
+
+ o New HTTP::Response methods: current_age(), freshness_lifetime(),
+ is_fresh(), fresh_until().
+
+ o HTTP::Message: New method ($mess->content_ref) which will return
+ a reference to the current content.
+
+ o URI::URL: New method ($url->rel) which does the opposite of abs().
+ Example: url("http://host/a/b/c", "http://host/c/d/e")->rel would
+ return url("../../a/b/c", "http://host/c/d/e"). This was
+ suggested by Nicolai Langfeldt <janl@ifi.uio.no>
+
+ o URI::URL: $url->query_form can now take array references as value
+ specification. For instance: $url->query_form(foo => ['bar', 'baz']
+
+ o Avoid '"my" variable $var masks earlier declaration in same scope'
+ warnings in perl5.003_05.
+
+
+
+Wed Sep 11 1996 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
+
+ o Release 5.02
+
+ o lwp-rget: Initialize proxy settings from envirionment
+
+ o HTML::Entities::encode_entities: Don't encode $ and %
+
+ o HTML::LinkExtor::links: Now works when no links were found.
+
+ o HTTP::Headers::as_string: Allow \n in header value
+
+
+
+Tue Aug 1 1996 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
+
+ o Release 5.01.
+
+ 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
+
+
+
+Sun May 26 1996 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
+
+ o Release 5.00.
+
+ o LWP::Simple::head() now return something useful in scalar context.
+
+ o Rewritten the HTML::Parse stuff. Introduced the HTML::Parser class
+ that will tokenize a HTML document. The rest of the old
+ HTML::Parse functionality has moved to HTML::TreeBuilder class.
+ Note, that the HTML stuff is still alpha.
+
+ o Implemented HTML::HeadParser. This is a lightweight parser for
+ the <HEAD> section of a HTML document.
+
+ o HTML::Element had problem with presenting things like <foo
+ bar="bar">.
+
+ o HTML::Entities: Included additional ISO-8859/1 entities listed in
+ RFC1866.
+
+ o HTML::AsSubs exported 'header' instead of 'head'
+
+ o We know about a few more of the HTML 3.2 element.
+
+ o HTTP::Date had problems with years before 1970, because Time::Local
+ went into an infinite loop. Check for this.
+
+ o Added $header->title method.
+
+ o Made $header->authorization_basic return "uname:passwd" in scalar
+ context
+
+ o LWP::Protocol::collect() will let the HTML::HeadParser look at the
+ document content as it arrives. This will initialize headers from
+ elements like <base href="...">, <title>...</title> and <meta
+ http-equiv="..." ...>.
+
+ o Simplified $response->base implementation, because we don't have
+ to look into the content any more.
+
+ o Added -quiet option to lwp-rget
+
+ o Typo fixes and some documentation additions.
+
+
+
+Thu May 9 1996 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
+
+ o Release 5b13
+
+ o Made URI::URL::strict(0) the default. I got tired of all this
+ eval { } stuff just to recover. The URI::URL::strict'ness also
+ determine if calling some standard method that happens to be
+ illegal for some protocol scheme will croak or just be ignored.
+
+ o Ensure correct $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR and $OUTPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR
+ at places where we <> or print.
+
+ o Always localize $_ before any 'while(<FILE>) {}'-loops
+
+ o Implemented $protocol->collect_once() and simplified several
+ of the protocol implementations by using it.
+
+ o The HTML parser used to get it wrong if you were unlucky about the
+ breakup of the text. An example of broken behaviour was this:
+
+ $html = parse_html "<!-- A comment -";
+ $html = parse_html "-> and some text.";
+
+ o The HTML parser does not ignore whitespace-only text any more.
+
+ o HTML::Parse warnings are now optional and turned off by default.
+
+ o New start for $html->as_HTML().
+
+ o Fixed some typos
+
+
+
+Wed Apr 24 1996 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
+
+ o Release 5b12
+
+ o New utility program called 'lwp-rget'.
+
+ o $response->base was broken for HTML documents
+
+ o New fancy LWP::Debug import() method. Can now turn on debugging with
+ "use LWP::Debug '+';"
+
+ o Trap exceptions (die) from the response callback routine
+
+ o The RobotUA now requires an e-mail address of the person reponsible
+ for the robot.
+
+ o New $ua->from() method.
+
+ o Support for gopher Index-Search (gopher type '7' requests).
+ Contributed by Harry Bochner <bochner@das.harvard.edu>
+
+ o Cleaned up white-space usage in the source.
+
+
+
+Wed Apr 3 1996 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
+
+ o Release 5b11
+
+ o Implemented a NNTP protocol module. The library can now fetch and
+ post news articles.
+
+ o More documentation
+
+ o Don't look at the URI header for redirects
+
+ o New $res->base() method for HTTP::Responses
+
+ o Graham Barr's patch to File::Listing to make it more OO internally
+
+ o content_type() return value is canonicalized
+
+ o $ua->request() does not die on bad URLs any more
+
+ o LWP::MediaTypes merge all media.types files that if finds
+
+ o FTP request with content to file or callback did not work
+
+ o The value of HTTP Host: header is now $url->netloc;
+
+ o The URI::URL constructor now accept URLs wrapped up in "<>"
+
+ o $url->abs() now has a second optional argument that makes it accept
+ that relative URLs can have scheme, i.e. treat "http:img.gif" as a
+ relative URL.
+
+ o Added prototypes to the HTTP::Status::is_xxx() functions
+
+ o Added prototypes to the MIME:: encoding/decoding functions
+
+ o Always return scheme for mailto and news URLs (as_string)
+
+ o RobotRules patches from Henry A Rowley.
+
+ o More tests
+
+ o <SMALL> and <BIG> again
+
+
+
+Thu Mar 14 1996 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
+
+ o Release 5b10
+
+ o GET ftp://host/doc was never successful for normal files.
+
+ o LWP::Socket: read_until() did not notice EOF condidtion. I.e. if
+ a HTTP server closed the connection before any output was generated,
+ the we continued to read 0 bytes in a busy loop until the alarm()
+ killed us.
+
+ o Added support for Digest Access Authentication. Contributed by
+ Doug MacEachern <dougm@osf.org>.
+
+ o Makefile.PL: check for MD5 library
+
+ o No longer print message content in HTTP::Response::error_as_HTML()
+
+ o Access to "file:/path" gave warning when the envirionment variable
+ no_proxy was set.
+
+ o The http-post test sends a Content-Type header. Some servers hang
+ if this header is missing.
+
+ o HTML::Parse:
+ - allow <SMALL> and <BIG> tags
+ - allow empty attribute values
+
+
+
+Tue Mar 5 1996 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
+
+ o Release 5b9
+
+ o Started to write on the libwww-perl cookbook (lwpcook.pod)
+
+ o The URI::URL module now exports the function url(). This is an
+ alternative (easy to use) constructor function.
+
+ o Expanding relative file URLs starting with "#" did not work.
+
+ o Fixed autoloaded DESTROY problem by adding empty DESTROY routine
+ to URI::URL.
+
+ o Does not try generate password for ftp-URLs unless the username is
+ "anonymous" or "ftp"
+
+ o The LWP::Simple user agent proxy settings are intialized from
+ the proxy environment variables.
+
+ o LWP::Protocol::ftp: Use the Net::FTP library to access ftp servers.
+ Convert directories to HTML on request (Accept: text/html).
+
+ o New module HTTP::Negotiate
+
+ o New module File::Listing
+
+ o HTTP::Date::str2time can parse a few more formats, like the 'ls -l'
+ format and ISO 8601. The function now also takes an optional second
+ parameter which specify a default time zone.
+
+ o Added prototypes to the HTTP::Date functions.
+
+ o The library adds a timestamp to responses ("Client-Date")
+
+ o HTTP::Status: Updated to proposed HTTP/1.1
+
+ o HTTP::Headers: Updated to proposed HTTP/1.1
+
+ o LWP::Protocol::http: Updated to HTTP/1.1 methods
+
+ o Took out stringify overloading in HTML::Element.
+
+
+
+Mon Feb 26 1996 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
+
+ o Release 5b8
+
+ o Renamed functions using thisStyleOfNames to this_style_of_names.
+ Provided a script called 'update_from_5b7'
+
+ o Renamed the 'request' and 'mirror' scripts to 'lwp-request' and
+ 'lwp-mirror'. The GET, POST, HEAD aliases for 'lwp-request' are
+ the same.
+
+ o Implemented LWP::RobotUA
+
+ o Class name for RobotRules did not match the file name
+
+ o URI::URL
+ - perl5.002gamma is required (because use vars).
+ - The leading slash in now part of the path if it is present.
+ - More documentation
+ - Use AutoLoader to speed things up.
+ - New class URI::URL::_login and made telnet, rlogin, tn3270
+ subclasses from this one.
+ - URI::URL::wais is better supported.
+ - URI::URL::news is better supported.
+ - New URI::URL::mailto methods: user/host
+
+ o HTTP::Date::time2str now works correctly with '0' as argument
+
+ o HTTP::Message delegates unknown methods to the headers.
+
+ o HTTP::Request::uri is an alias for HTTP::Request::url. Can set
+ the URL to undef.
+
+ o Added convenience methods to HTTP::Headers for easy access to
+ frequently used headers.
+
+ o Simplified LWP::Debug
+
+ o Use standard AutoLoader for LWP::IO functions.
+
+ o Played with the profiler (Devel::DProf) and made some things
+ go quicker.
+
+ o Included the File::CounterFile module. Excluded Mail::Cap module
+ as it is also part of the MailTools package.
+
+
+
+Mon Feb 5 1996 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
+
+ o Release 5b7
+
+ o Perl5.002 is required now
+
+ o Rewrite of the URI::URL module (version 4.00)
+ - escaping/unsafe stuff redone (and removed)
+ - URI::URL::_generic moved out of URL.pm
+ - netloc, path, params, query is now stored internally in escaped form
+ - new methods for URI::URL::_generic are:
+ epath
+ eparams
+ equery
+ path_components
+ absolute_path
+ - new methods for URI::URL::http are:
+ keywords
+ query_form
+ - new methods for URI::URL::file are:
+ newlocal
+ local_path
+ unix_path
+ dos_path
+ mac_path
+ vms_path
+
+ o URI::Escape now semi-compile regular expressions (by evaling an
+ anonymous sub). Same techinque is also used in HTML::Entities.
+
+ o HTTP::Date parser rewritten using regular expressions.
+
+ o HTTP::Headers->as_string() now croaks if any field values
+ contain newline.
+
+ o HTTP::Status constants use empty prototype.
+
+ o Font metrics moved to a new subdirectory (lib/Font/Metrics)
+
+ o Don't use the VERSION script any more (even if it was very clever)
+
+ o HTML::Entities will now export the names decode_entities() and
+ encode_entities().
+
+ o Andreas Koenig's black patch to HTML::Element.
+
+ o The HTML::Formatter now knows about <menu> and <dir> tags
+
+ o The construct "defined ref($arg)" did not work on perl5.002
+ becase ref now always return something defined.
+
+ o LWP::UserAgent sends by default an 'User-Agent' header.
+
+ o LWP::Simple sends 'User-Agent' header to servers.
+
+ o Updated the LWP::Socket module to use the new Socket.pm interface.
+
+ o LWP::Protocol::http sends the new HTTP/1.1 'Host' header.
+
+ o LWP::Protocol::file use $url->local_path to get a file to open.
+ It also inserts a <BASE> tag in directories instead of a redirect.
+
+ o MIME::Base64 routines can be called as MIME::Base64::encode() and
+ MIME::Base64::decode(). Same kind of thing for QuotedPrint.
+
+
+
+Mon Nov 6 1995 Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>
+
+ o Release 5b6
+
+ o Installation should work better for those that still runs
+ perl4 as 'perl'. The mirror script is not installed by
+ default.
+
+ o LWP::Socket::_getaddress() Numerical IP adresses did not work.
+
+ o LWP::Socket::pushback() did not work. This also avoids the bad
+ pp_select() core dump from perl.
+
+ o LWP::IO now also selects on socket exceptions.
+
+ o HTML::Parse: Ignore <!DOCTYPE ...> regardless for case. Some
+ bad insertElement() calls made infinite loops.
+
+ o The uri.t test works better for places where /tmp is a sym-link.
+
+
+
+Sat Sep 16 1995 Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>
+
+ o Release 5b5
+
+ o newlocal URI::URL does not put "//localhost" into the URLs any
+ longer.
+
+ o The request program: New -o option to reformat the HTML code
+ New -C option to provide credentials on the command line.
+ The -b option never worked.
+
+ o LWP::Protocol::file now returns redirect for access to directories
+ where the trailing slash is missing.
+
+
+
+Thu Sep 14 1995 Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>
+
+ o Speedups and bug fixes in the HTML parser. The parser now
+ understands some more depreciated tags (like <xmp> and <listing>).
+
+ o HTML::Elements are now stingified using perl overloading.
+ The interface to the traverse() callback has changed.
+
+ o Implemented HTML formatters for plain text and Postscript.
+
+ o Added lib/Font stuff to support the Postscript formatter.
+
+ o Inspired by Tim Bunce, I implemented the HTML::AsSubs module.
+ Don't know if it is really useful.
+
+ o The local/get test does not use /etc/passwd any more.
+
+
+
+Thu Sep 7 1995 Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>
+
+ o Changed package name to libwww-perl-5xx
+
+ o Made LWP::Protocol::ftp actually transfer data
+
+ o Implemented methods for LWP::Socket to act as a server:
+ bind(), listen(), accept(), getsockname(), host(), port()
+
+
+
+Wed Sep 6 1995 Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>
+
+ o Release 0.04
+
+ o Implemented modules to parse HTML.
+
+
+
+Mon Sep 4 1995 Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>
+
+ o Implemented Mail::Cap which will become part of the MailTools
+ package.
+
+ o Moved Base64 to MIME::Base64. Reimplemented MIME::Base64 by using
+ [un]pack("u",...) Implemented LWP::MIME::QuotedPrint for
+ completness sake. Routine names has changed as suggested by Tim
+ Bunce.
+
+ o LWP::MediaType reads default types from media.types file.
+ guessMediaType() now also returns encodings. New function mediaSuffix()
+
+ o Pass $url to $ua->getBasicCredentials(). This also fixes security
+ hole with the old implementation of getBasicCredentials().
+
+ o LWP::Protocol::file now sets Content-Encoding headers
+
+ o Allow request content to be provided by a callback routine.
+
+ o Fix bug that prevented response callback to work. The first parameter
+ (data) is no longer a reference, because $_[0] is already a reference.
+ Don't callback unless successful response. Callbacks during redirects
+ was confusing.
+
+ o URI::URL. Remove port from netloc if it is the default port.
+ Don't use anything, just require.
+
+ o HTTP::Message->addContent() does not need a reference parameter.
+
+ o LWP::Socket->open() has been renamed top LWP::Socket->connect()
+ LWP::Socket->close has gone. Implemented new method LWP::Socket->read()
+ that returns as fast as it has some data to offer. Implemented
+ LWP::Socket->pushback().
+
+ o Does not die in LWP::UserAgent->request()
+
+ o LWP::Socket now use LWP::IO for low level IO
+
+ o Implemented LWP::TkIO as a replacement module for LWP::IO when using Tk.
+
+
+
+Thu Aug 17 1995 Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>
+
+ o $ua->redirectOK() for checking redirects
+
+ o reorganized tests in the "t" directory.
+
+
+
+Fri Aug 11 1995 Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>
+
+ o Release 0.03
+
+ o Included RobotRules.pm from Martijn Koster
+
+
+
+Thu Aug 10 1995 Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>
+
+ o New module URI::Escape (URI::URL use this module for default
+ escaping) that provide the uri_escape() and uri_unescape()
+ functions.
+
+ o Setting $url->scheme now changes the class of the object.
+
+ o Made $httpurl->user() and $httpurl->password() illegal.
+ Likewise for other URL schemes.
+
+
+
+
+Wed Aug 9 1995 Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>
+
+ o Reorganisation as discussed on <libwww-perl@ics.uci.edu>
+ LWP::Date --> HTTP::Date
+ LWP::MIMEheader --> HTTP::Headers
+ LWP::StatusCode --> HTTP::Status
+ LWP::Message --> HTTP::Message
+ LWP::Request --> HTTP::Request
+ LWP::Response --> HTTP::Response
+ LWP::MIMEtypes --> LWP::MediaTypes
+
+ o HTTP::Date parses ctime format with missing timezone as suggested
+ by Roy Fielding <fielding@beach.w3.org>
+
+ o HTTP::Status and LWP::MediaTypes exports their functions by default.
+
+ o Splitted up the URI::URL module. Schemes are implemented by separate
+ files that are autoloaded when used. Self test moved to "t/uri.t".
+
+
+
+Mon Aug 7 1995 Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>
+
+ o Applied patch from Marc Hedlund <hedlund@best.com>
+ - Update the @header_order according to the August 3rd draft.
+ - Added Response Header fields: 'Location', 'Public', 'Retry-After',
+ 'Server', and 'WWW-Authenticate'.
+ - Moved 'unknown header' handling from &scan to &header. The old
+ implementation was forcing all unknown header-words to begin with
+ an uppercase (as it should be), but disallowed other uppercase
+ letters.
+ - updates the status code messages under the August
+ 3rd HTTP/1.0 draft. '203' became 'Non-Authoritative Information',
+ '303' became 'See Other', and a new code,
+ '411 Authorization Refused', was added.
+
+ o Can remove multiple headers with single removeHeader() call in MIMEheader.
+
+ o Can assign multiple field/value pairs in header() method of MIMEheader.
+
+ o A field with multiple values is printed as separate values in
+ MIMEheader::as_string().
+
+ o LWP::Response contain new attributes: previous() and request(). These
+ attributes are updated by the UserAgent.
+
+ o Appended \n to some die statements in Socket so that line numbers are
+ suppressed in error messages.
+
+ o Made UserAgent::clone work for reference members
+
+ o Check for redirect loops and multiple authorization failures by
+ examination of the response chain.
+
+ o Use "\015\012" instead of "\r\n" in protocol modules. Some systems
+ define \r and \n differently.
+
+ o request program can now handle documents that needs autorization by
+ prompting the user for username/password. Added new -S option to print
+ request/response chain.
+
+
+
+Tue Jul 25 1995 Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>
+
+ o Release 0.02
+
+ o Included URI::URL in the release
+
+
+
+Mon Jul 24 1995 Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>
+
+ o Incorporated Makemake.PL and VERSION from Andreas Koenig <koenig@mind.de>
+ As a result of this the following things have changed:
+ - programs in "bin" are extracted from .PL-files
+ - reintroduced "lib"
+ - "test" has been renamed as "t"
+ - test programs in "t" has been made Test::Harness compatible
+ - we now have a MANIFEST file
+ - no more need fro update_version, make-dist, lwp-install
+
+ o Renamed bin/get to bin/request. Links to it are now all upper case.
+
+ o Proxy support in bin/request (provided by Martijn Koster)
+
+ o UserAgent can now load proxy settings from environment
+
+ o LWP::Protocol::ftp is under way but not really finished
+
+
+
+Tue Jul 18 1995 Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>
+
+ o Implemented LWP::Protocol::gopher
+
+ o Implemented LWP::Protocol::mailto
+
+ o Fixed proxy typo
+
+
+
+Mon Jul 17 1995 Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>
+
+ o Made release 0.01
+
+
+
+Mon Jul 17 1995 Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>
+
+ o Don't loose first line of HTTP/0.9 requests
+
+ o LWP::Socket use syswrite() for writing
+
+ o Added RC_* documentation to LWP::StatusCode
+
+ o LWP::Date now use hash to look up month numbers
+
+ o Added -f option to "get"
+
+ o Untabify
+
+ o Added a "TODO" list
+
+ o Fixed various typos
+
+
+
+Fri Jul 14 1995 Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>
+
+ o Reorganized directories. Moved LWP.pm up. Moved file.pm and http.pm
+ into the LWP::Protocol direcotory. Moved LWP out of the lib directory
+ and removed lib.
+
+ o Implemented the "get" and "mirror" scripts in the "bin" directory.
+
+ o Implemented "install-lwp", "update_version" and "make-dist". The library
+ version number is found in the VERSION file.
+
+ o Always adds 1900 to the year in LWP::Date
+
+ o In LWP::MIMEheader: Implemented clone(), removeHeader() and scan()
+ methods. Reimplemented asString. Removed asMIME(). Moved "Good
+ Practice" into this file, and reimplemented it.
+
+ o Moved "header" and "content" into LWP::Message class. This change made
+ LWP::Request and LWP::Response much simpler. Made clone() method
+ actually work.
+
+ o LWP::Protocol::implementor does not die if it cannot load package.
+
+ o Moved UserAgent convenience methods into LWP::Simple. Made LWP::Simple
+ export LWP::StatusCode symbols and functions.
+
+ o Implemented $ua->isProtocolSupported($scheme) method.
+
+ o Nicer directory listing in LWP::Protocol::file.pm
+
+ o Rely on URI::URL 3.00 behaviour for $url->full_path
+
+ o Library version number now in LWP.pm. You should be able to say
+ "use LWP 1.0;" if you need at least this version.
+
+ o Various cleanups and arranging layout as I like it. Use fooBar-style
+ (as opposed to foo_bar stype) everywhere. This means that as_string()
+ now is called asString().
+
+ o Added more documentation.
+
+
+
+Wed Jun 14 1995 Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>
+
+ o Removed lot of rendundant & before function calls.
+
+ o $this --> $self
+
+ o &collector passes content as a reference, don't want to copy so much
+
+ o parameterlist to collect callback has been rearranged
+
+ o Response::addContent gets a reference to the data
+
+ o Added some callback documentation to UserAgent.pm
+
+ o Protocol::file now uses the collector
+
+ o Introduced LWP::Simple
+
+
+
+Sun Jun 11 1995 Martijn Koster <m.koster@nexor.co.uk>
+
+ o Added basic authentication support
+
+ o Added mirroring of single documents
+
+ o Change Protocol construction from whacky URL.pm (constructor returns
+ subclass) to more normal C++'ish way.
+
+
+
+Wed June 7 1995 Martijn Koster <m.koster@nexor.co.uk>
+
+ o Minor cleanups from printed code inspection
+
+
+
+Wed May 24 1995 Martijn Koster <m.koster@nexor.co.uk>
+
+ o Added redirection resolution
+
+ o Added optional autoloading of protocols
+
+
+
+Tue May 23 1995 Martijn Koster <m.koster@nexor.co.uk>
+
+ o Separated socket stuff into separate module
+
+ o Added HTTP proxy support
+
+ o Made alarm handling optional
+
+ o Added a LWP::Message for completeness sake
+
+ o Added LWP::MemberMixin to reduce code duplication
+
+ o Cosmetic changes to LWP::Date
+
+ o Renamed LWP::Error to LWP::StatusCode
+
+ o Renamed LWP::MIME to LWP::MIMEtype
+
+ o Changed the tests to cope with all this
+
+It's getting there...
+
+
+
+Mon May 22 1995 Martijn Koster <m.koster@nexor.co.uk>
+
+ o Changed the socket reading to use sysread. This will have to go
+ into a module of its own.
+
+
+
+Thu 18 May 1995 Martijn Koster <m.koster@nexor.co.uk>
+
+ o Mentioned on libwww-perl that I had changed the classes around lots.
projects / dh-make-perl / blobdiff