ParallelUserAgent

Tue Feb 10 2004 Marc Langheinrich <marclang@cpan.org>

CPAN Release 2.57
redirect bug fixed (patch by Thomas Boutell)

Mon May 26 2003 Marc Langheinrich <marclang@cpan.org>

CPAN Release 2.56
forgot to package t/TEST in the latest release, so all tests failed
some miscenallenous bugfixes (undefined values, etc)

Fri May 23 2003 Marc Langheinrich <marclang@cpan.org>

CPAN Release 2.55 (namefix release: didn't realize PAUSE had some special handling mechanisms for x.yy_zz version names, which resulted in the 2.54_21 release not being indexed)
No code changes to 2.54_21!

Tue Mar 11 2003 Marc Langheinrich <marclang@cpan.org>

CPAN Release 2.54_21 (bugfix release)
Packaging

Wed Feb 19 2003 Marc Langheinrich <marclang@cpan.org>

Release 2.54_20 (beta testing only)
bugfix: [Parallel::UserAgent.pm] called newresponse without fully qualifiying the package (should be LWP::UserAgent::newresponse), as this was screwed up in the bugfix in 2.54_19

Wed Feb 19 2003 Marc Langheinrich <marclang@cpan.org>

Release 2.54_19 (beta testing only)
rearranged tests and copied LWP's t/TEST file for ease-of-use
added local/file tests
added live tests (mozilla, jigsaw.w3c.org), see t/TEST
added [Parallel::Protocol::file.pm] by Jeff Behr
added file.pm support to [Parallel::UserAgent.pm]
bugfix: [Parallel::Protocol.pm] fixed some LWP::Debug::trace calls
bugfix: [Parallel::Protocol.pm] receiving into a file would always append
bugfix: [Parallel::UserAgent.pm] called newreponse without $self->
bugfix: [Parallel::UserAgent.pm] singlerequest would drop parameters when delegating to ->register
bugfix: [Parallel::UserAgent.pm] send_request and request would create new useragent, without copying currents ua's settings. now they operate on $self instead (thus retaining all current settings)
bugfix: [Parallel::RobotUA.pm] fixed syntax errors!! :-(
bugfix: [Parallel::RobotUA.pm] $rules->visit would not be updated if an earlier visit had failed (even though the current one worked), or if we requested the robots.txt file itself.
bugfix: [Parallel::RobotUA.pm] added ->use_sleep support
checked [Parallel::RobotUA] against LWP::RobotUA 1.18
updated RobotUA->delay method to use minutes instead of seconds (compatible with LWP::RobotUA behavior)
bugfix: [Parallel::Protocol::ftp.pm] fixed HTTP::Response calls (forgot to add "->new", aargh!)
bugfix: [Parallel::Protocol::ftp.pm] added $key and $account vars to make conn_cache work
bugfix: [Parallel::Protocol::ftp.pm] fixed various syntax errors!!! :-|
renamed Parallel::Protocol::http::connect method to _connect (to indicate that it's private)
bugfix: [Parallel::Protocol::http.pm] handle_connect had wrong return
bugfix: [Parallel::Protocol::http.pm] pushback buffer (also spotted by Dongqiang Bai)
bugfix: [Parallel::Protocol::http.pm] empty buffers passed to ->receive
bugfix: [Parallel::Protocol::http.pm] handle_connect had wrong return format

Thu Mar 28 2002 Marc Langheinrich <marclang@cpan.org>

CPAN Release 2.54
compatibility fixes only in this release (against LWP 5.64). This also means still no support for HTTP/1.1 :-( Uses LWP 'backdoor' to force use of HTTP/1.0
checked against libwww-5.64

Mon May 28 2001 Marc Langheinrich <marclang@cpan.org>

CPAN Release 2.51
NO SUPPORT FOR HTTP/1.1 YET! (new in libwww-perl-5.53)
connections that time out halfway through their data transfer now call the on_failure callback (nothing was called in prior versions, thanks to Jonathan Feinberg <jdf@pobox.com> for spotting this)
prepared compatibilty for POE http://sourceforge.net/projects/poe/ (still needs some work, thanks to http://www.en-directo.net/mail/kirill.html)
added (optional) non-blocking connects (use $ua->nonblock(1)) (experimental, thanks to http://www.en-directo.net/mail/kirill.html)
Fixed bug in Useragent.pm assigning same response to all timed out entries (thanks to John Salmon <john@thesalmons.org>)
checked against libwww-5.53

Mon Feb 21 2001 Marc Langheinrich <marclang@cpan.org>

CPAN Release 2.50
Fixed https.pm inheritance bug (thanks to Chris Osborn <cosborn@digisle.net> and countless others)
Fixed (serious) RobotUA.pm bug, where robots.txt files get ignored (thanks to Vlad Ciubotariu <ciu@infoiasi.ro>)
checked against libwww-5.50

Mon May 08 2000 Marc Langheinrich <marclang@cpan.org>

CPAN Release 2.49
added initial https support (as suggested by Marian Szabo <mszabo@coralwave.com>)

Mon May 08 2000 Marc Langheinrich <marclang@cpan.org>

CPAN Release 2.48a
Added (empty) DESTROY method to Parallel::UserAgent::Entry in order to please perl5.6

Wed Apr 19 2000 Marc Langheinrich <marclang@cpan.org>

CPAN Release 2.48
Updated changes in libwww-5.48 (since 5.43) UserAgent.pm:1.66 -> 1.73 RobotUA.pm:1.15 -> 1.17 Protocol.pm:1.33 -> 1.36 http.pm:1.46 -> 1.49 ftp.pm:1.25 -> 1.27

Sun Jul 18 1999 Marc Langheinrich <marclang@cpan.org>

CPAN Release 2.43
Fixed FTP mode and finally unblocked ftp-scheme again :-)
Checked against libwww-5.43

Thu Apr 15 1999 Marc Langheinrich <marclang@cpan.org>

CPAN Release 2.41
Updated changes in libwww-5.42: UserAgent.pm:1.64 -> 1.66 RobotUA.pm:1.14 -> 1.15 Protocol.pm:1.31 -> 1.33 http.pm:1.44 -> 1.46
Fixed $ua->max_size bug in Parallel/Protocol.pm

Tue Jan 12 1999 Marc Langheinrich <marclang@cpan.org>

CPAN Release 2.40
Updated changes in libwww-5.41: UserAgent.pm:1.62 -> 1.64 RobotUA.pm:1.13 -> 1.14 http.pm:1.43 -> 1.44 ftp.pm:1.24 -> 1.25
Fixed '$1' bug in Parallel/Protocol/http.pm

Tue Nov 24 1998 Marc Langheinrich <marclang@cpan.org>

CPAN Release 2.39
Added incompatibility warning for libwww > supported ones (currently up to 5.36)
Added cookie jar to redirects (fix by Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>)

Tue Nov 17 1998 Marc Langheinrich <marclang@cpan.org>

Fixed problem with otherwise successful requests that took a long time to have their handles closed. These would be set to "408 timeout" although all the data was already transmitted. Now the existing status is preserved and the string (timeout) appended instead.
Added more timeout.t tests to make sure the above scheme works.

Tue Nov 10 1998 Marc Langheinrich <marclang@cpan.org>

CPAN Release 2.38
Split parallel.t into three separate testfiles: compatibility.t, parallel.t and timeouts.t
Fixed timeout handling in Parallel::UserAgent.
Added Timeout tests to parallel.t testscript (this included using a forking HTTP::Daemon instead of our serial one, since otherwise the timeout simulations would break the server).
Fixed die's when calling ->previous methods in parallel.t

Tue Sep 29 1998 Marc Langheinrich <marclang@cpan.org>

Fixed testcript parallel.t for broken redirection on ppc-linux.

Tue Sep 22 1998 Marc Langheinrich <marclang@cpan.org>

CPAN Release 2.37
Fixed bug in Parallel::UserAgent where timeout would fail to create HTTP::Response object.
Added some simple examples to LWP::Parallel manpage.

Mon Sep 7 1998 Marc Langheinrich <marclang@cpan.org>

CPAN Release 2.36
Fixed bogus version information in LWP::Parallel and Bundle:: ParallelUA.(forgot to update $VERSION variable accordingly)
Fixed missing SYNOPSIS element in ParallelUA.pm and RobotPUA.pm
Blocked ftp-scheme handling since it wasn't working at all. Thanks to Gary Foster for actually being the first person to try using Paralle::UserAgent with ftp requests. This will hopefully be fixed in the next release.

Tue Sep 1 1998 Marc Langheinrich <marclang@cpan.org>

CPAN Release 2.35
http.pm: updated changes in libwww-5.46 (http.pm,v 1.43). Fixed problems with "die"s during operation (now caught by UserAgent.pm)
ftp.pm: updated changes in libwww-5.46 (ftp.pm,v 1.24)
UserAgent.pm: Fixed "eval{}" calls to Protocol.pm objects. Updated changes in libwww-5.46 (UserAgent.pm,v 1.62)
Checked against libwww-5.36

Thu Jul 9 1998 Marc Langheinrich <marclang@cpan.org>

CPAN Release 2.34
Fixed wrong package name in LWP::Parallel::Protocol::ftp
Fixed typo in Parallel::UserAgent
Updated libwww-5.34 changes (one in ftp.pm,v 1.23)
Checked against libwww-5.34

Wed Jun 10 1998 Marc Langheinrich <marclang@cpan.org>

Developers Release 2.33a
Fixed "die"s in Parallel/Protocol/http.pm to return HTTP::Response instead.
Adjusted Parallel/UserAgent.pm to handle http.pm errors.
Checked against libwww-5.33

Mon Apr 27 1998 Marc Langheinrich <marclang@cpan.org>

CPAN Release 2.32
Updated libwww-5.31 bugfixes (one in UserAgent.pm,v 1.60)
Checked against libwww-5.31 and 5.32

Fri Mar 27 1998 Marc Langheinrich <marclang@cpan.org>

First official CPAN release, version 2.31
Updated libwww5.22 bugfixes (one in UserAgent.pm,v 1.59)
Checked against libwww-5.22.

Fri Mar 13 1998 Marc Langheinrich <marclang@cpan.org>

Developer Release 2.3c (pre-release of 2.31)
Fixed installation bug in Makefile.PL (LWP uses ->Version method for version checking).
Updated libwww5.21 bugfixes (two in http.pm,v 1.41).
Checked against libwww-5.21.

Wed Mar 11 1998 Marc Langheinrich <marclang@cpan.org>

Developer Release 2.3b
Added $ua->discard_entry($entry) method. This can be used in callbacks to discard the entire entry thus freeing up memory.
Makefile.PL will check for correct version of LWP.
Fixed some installation glitches.

Fri Mar 6 1998 Marc Langheinrich <marclang@cpan.org>

Developer Release 2.3a
Moved all modules into the LWP::Parallel subdirectory.
LWP::ParallelUA and LWP::RobotPUA only stubs for 'real' modules underneath LWP::Parallel tree (LWP::Parallel::UserAgent and LWP::Parallel::RobotUA).
Parallel::UserAgent, Parallel::RobotUA and Parallel::Protocol now inherent most of their code from the corresponding LWP modules.
Added some documentation in Parallel::UserAgent.
Added Makefile.PL support (should compile & install now out of the box using the standard sequence "perl Makefile.PL; make; make test; make install").
Supplied test script (in t/parallel.t)
Checked against libwww-5.20

Mon Mar 2 1998 Marc Langheinrich <marclang@cpan.org>

Created standard perl module package format.