Revision history for Perl extension HTTP::Request::Form.

0.1 Fri Feb 13 11:49:30 1998

• original version; created by h2xs 1.18

0.2 Wed Jul 15 10:46:00 1998

• line-endings were in DOS-format. That's the result if you think "oh, just hack this up on the dos prompt". Dang. Sorry.
• corrected and tested the installation
• streamlined the documentation

0.3 Mon Aug 31 09:51:00 1998

• methods can be uppercase or lowercase (this was a problem with the new LWP)
• archivename now in standard format

0.4 Mon Sep 28 11:10:44 CEST 1998

• better example in the Synopsis (this one actually works!)
• bugfixes in the handling of GET (this didn't work before)

0.5 Thu Aug 19 14:02:13 MET DST 1999

        Several user-reported bug-fixes and some extensions:
        - fixed synopsis (missing ";")
        - handle reset buttons identically to submit buttons
        - debug now shows the expanded URL and not the given link
        - support for textarea fields
        - special support for radio buttons (they are now handled in the
          same way as selections and only one value is submitted to the
          server on press(...))
        - special support for checkboxes (only checkboxes with defined
          value are submitted to the server, undefined ones are left
          out)
        - support for image buttons
        - support for HTML 4.0 button tags (they are handled identically
          to their input equivalents)
        - when the form-tag doesn't have a method attribute, GET is assumed

0.6 Thu Mar 2 19:23:54 CET 2000

        Some extensions that I needed myself:
        - added support for input field type "file"
        - added a fix to change all field-types to lowercase
        - added support for the referer header

0.7 Thu Mar 2 21:14:03 CET 2000

        Added some user-requested features
        - added a sample for yahoo that uses an anonymous press
        - changed the servername in the altavista example
        - added a diagnostic check when pressing a button, that the
          button is really defined
        - added better support for checkboxes. See the is_checkbox and
          the checkbox_* functions
        - added support for (x,y)-coordinates when pressing image buttons

0.8 Mon Dec 18 09:57:00 CET 2000

        Some bugfixes and some extensions:
        - textarea should now work in both forms. Before there was either
          a problem with textareas that included some default text, or
          with empty textareas. Now Form.pm does look wether the contents
          of a textarea is able to perform as_HTML and only uses it if
          it is able to do it. Should fix some longstanding problems with
          textareas.
        - ex/yahoo.pl wasn't in the MANIFEST
        - added a simple test procedure that just checks if it can be loaded

0.9 Thu Feb 9 19:43:00 CET 2001

        Some bugfixes and some extensions by Sean M. Burke:
        - ISINDEX is supported
        - a new constructor new_many is created that parses all forms of
          a HTML file so you don't have to manually extract links any more.
          This constructor handles stray form elements outside of forms.
        - the name of form elements is cached and can be queried

0.95 Fri Feb 10 08:01:00 CET 2001

        Some bugfixes from Sean M. Burke:
        - textarea was still broken in new_many, now fixed.
        - iteration over self->content || [], not self->content alone
          (that one could be undef)

0.951 Thu Sep 13 10:19:00 CET 2001

        One small bugfix by Michael Kablitz
        - textarea-handling was broken and needed double $ because of
          references. Damn typos. Funny thing: nobody else mentioned it.
          Half a year with a broken package :-)