HTTP::MHTTP

Copyright (c) 2003 Piers Harding.
All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either:

the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later version, or
the "Artistic License"

HTTP::MHTTP is a fast http client library for Perl. its advantages are that it gives you low level access to constructing the HTTP requests, and it handles GET, POST, PUT, HEAD, and DELETE.

Basic SSL support can be compiled in - this does not validate certificates, but enables the TLS level negotiation.

To compile in SSL support then amend the call to perl Makefile.PL to be: GOTSSL=yes perl Makefile.PL

You may need to amend the Makefile.PL script to ensure that the CFLAGS, and LDFLAGS (INC, and LIBS) are pointing at your openssl installation correctly.

The test suite assumes that you have access to the internet - so if the tests fail then it is most likely due to you not being able to hit http://www.piersharding.com

perl Makefile.PL <= change this to "GOTSSL=yes perl Makefile.PL" for SSL support make
make test
make install

Dance.

for more details:

perldoc HTTP::MHTTP

Piers Harding - piers@cpan.org
Somewhere arround: Fri Jan 3 09:48:04 GMT 2003