This is the release where we try to help the CPAN-toolchain be able to install the modules required for https-support in LWP. We have done this by unbundling the LWP::Protocol::https module from the libwww-perl distribution. In order to have https support you now need to install (or depend on) 'LWP::Protocol::https' and then this will make sure that all the prerequsite modules comes along. See [RT#66838].

This release also removes the old http10 modules that has really been deprecated since v5.60. These should have been removed at the v6.00 jump, but I forgot.

Christopher J. Madsen (1):

Ignores env variables when ssl_opts provided [RT#66663]

Gisle Aas (4):

Fix typo; Authen::NTLM [RT#66884]

Yury Zavarin (1):

Support LWP::ConnCache->new(total_capacity => undef)

Add missing HTTP::Daemon dependency for the tests.

Unbundled all modules not in the LWP:: namespace from the libwww-perl distribution. The new broken out CPAN distribtions are File-Listing, HTML-Form, HTTP-Cookies, HTTP-Daemon, HTTP-Date, HTTP-Message, HTTP-Negotiate, Net-HTTP, and WWW-RobotRules. libwww-perl-6 require these to be installed.

This release also drops the unmaintained lwp-rget script from the distribution.

Perl v5.8.8 or better is now required. For older versions of perl please stay with libwww-perl-5.837.

For https://... default to verified connections with require IO::Socket::SSL and Mozilla::CA modules to be installed. Old behaviour can be requested by setting the PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME environment variable to 0. The LWP::UserAgent got new ssl_opts method to control this as well.

Support internationalized URLs from command line scripts and in the proxy environment variables.

The lwp-dump script got new --request option.

The lwp-request script got new -E option, contributed by Tony Finch.

Protocol handlers and callbacks can raise HTTP::Response objects as exceptions. This will abort the current request and make LWP return the raised response.

David E. Wheeler (1):

Fix for Encode 2.40

Gisle Aas (2):

      Fix Perl syntax error in synopsis
      Allow ISO 8601 date strings when parsing Apache file listings

Gisle Aas (1):

Fix problem where $resp->base would downcase its return value

Gisle Aas (12):

      simple string can be simplified
      Make $mess->decoded_content remove XML encoding declarations [RT#52572]
      Don't allow saving to filenames starting with '.' suggested by server
      Avoid race between testing for existence of output file and opening the file
      Minor doc fixup -- wrongly ucfirsted word
      Use decoded_content in HTTP:Response synopsis [RT#54139]
      sun.com is no more. rip!
      Trivial layout tweak to reduce variable scope.
      Add 'make test_hudson' target
      Implement alt_charset parameter for decoded_content()
      Test decoding with different charset parameters
      lwp-download now needs the -s option to honor the Content-Disposition header

Ville Skyttä (9):

      Make LWP::MediaTypes::media_suffix case insensitive.
      Skip XML decoding tests if XML::Simple is not available.
      Documentation fixes.
      Fix m_media_type => "xhtml" matching.
      Make parse_head() apply to data: requests.
      Documentation spelling fixes.
      Documentation grammar fixes.
      Use $uri->secure in m_secure if available.
      Fix handling of multiple (same) base headers, and parameters in them.

Mark Stosberg (5):

      Strip out empty lines separated by CRLF
      Best Practice: avoid indirect object notation
      Speed up as_string by 4% by having sortedfield_names return a reference
      Speed up scan() a bit. as_string() from this branch is now 6% faster
      Port over as_string() optimizations from HTTP::Headers::Fast

Tom Hukins (2):

      Link to referenced documentation.
      Update repository location.

Father Chrysostomos (1):

Remove needless (and actually harmful) local $_

Sean M. Burke (1):

"Perl & LWP" is available online

Gisle Aas (4):

      Check for sane default_headers argument [RT#50393]
      Add $ua->local_address attribute [RT#40912]
      Test that generation of boundary works [RT#49396]
      Page does not display the "standard" apache listing any more

Ville Skyttä (2):

      Remove unneeded executable permissions.
      Switch compression/decompression to use the IO::Compress/IO::Uncompress and
          Compress::Raw::Zlib family of modules.

Slaven Rezic (1):

lwp-request should use stderr for auth [RT#21620]

Gisle Aas (5):

      Deal with cookies that expire far into the future [RT#50147]
      Deal with cookies that expire at or before epoch [RT#49467]
      Pass separate type for https to LWP::ConnCache [RT#48899]
      Improved handling of the User-Agent header [RT#48461]
      HTTP::Cookies add_cookie_header previous Cookies [RT#46106]

Andreas J. Koenig (1):

Improve diagnostics from LWP::UserAgent::mirror [RT#48869]

Slaven Rezic (1):

mirror should die in case X-Died is set [RT#48236]

Ville Skyttä (1):

Increase default Net::HTTP max line length to 8k.

Ville Skyttä (6):

      Fix net test suite.
      Comment spelling fixes.
      Fix links to old Netscape cookie specification.
      Documentation spelling fixes.
      Improve max line length exceeded/read error messages.
      Do not warn about seemingly wellformed but unrecognized robots.txt lines.

Gisle Aas (1):

$mess->content_charset would fail for empty content

mschilli (1):

Further restrict what variables env_proxy() process

Ville Skyttä (3):

      Fix bzip2 content encoding/decoding.
      send_te() doc grammar fix.
      Document time2str() behavior with an undefined argument.

Gisle Aas (1):

HTML::Message's content_charset trigger warnings from HTML::Parser [RT#48621]

Gisle Aas (1):

select doesn't return undef on failure [RT#32356]

Ville Skyttä (1):

Add raw RFC 1951 deflate test case.

This release removes callback handlers that were left over on the returned HTTP::Responses. This was problematic because it created reference loops preventing the Perl garbage collector from releasing their memory. Another problem was that Storable by default would not serialize these objects any more.

This release also adds support for locating HTML::Form inputs by id or class attribute; for instance $form->value("#foo", 42) will set the value on the input with the ID of "foo".

Gisle Aas (5):

      Make the example code 'use strict' clean by adding a my
      Avoid cycle in response
      Clean up handlers has from response after data processing is done
      Support finding inputs by id or class in HTML::Form
      Test HTML::Form selectors

Mark Stosberg (1):

Tidy and document the internals of mirror() better [RT#23450]

phrstbrn (1):

Avoid warnings from HTML::Form [RT#42654]

A quick new release to restore compatiblity with perl-5.6.

Gisle Aas (4):

      Less noisy behaviour when we can't download the documents
      Restore perl-5.6 compatiblity [RT#47054]
      Don't decode US-ASCII and ISO-8859-1 content
      Some versions of Encode don't support UTF-16-BE [RT#47152]

Ville Skyttä (1):

Spelling fixes.

The main news this time is better detection of what character set the document in a response uses and the addition of the lwp-dump script that I found useful.

Gisle Aas (31):

      Added lwp-dump script
      Replace calls to $req->url with $req->uri
      Also need to encode strings in the latin1 range
      Ignore the value set for file inputs [RT#46911]
      Add docs to lwp-dump
      Don't let lwp-dump follow redirects
      Support --method options
      Implement the --agent option
      Dictionary order for the option docs; document --method
      Merge branch 'dump'
      Files are passed as an array and we must not stringify it.
      Add content_charset method to HTTP::Message
      Start guessing the charset for a message
      Let content_charset guess the charset to use for decoded_content
      Specify what's missing for the XML and HTML case
      Provide charset parameter for HTML::Form->parse()
      Make content_charset sniff for <meta> elements specifying the charset.
      Determine charset of XML documents
      Get rid of the trivialhttp_get() implementation
      Update the bundled media.types file
      LWP::Simple::get() now returns decoded_content [RT#44435]
      Implement content_type_charset method for HTTP::Headers
      Implement content_is_text method for HTTP::Headers
      Make use of content_is_text and content_type_charset in decoded_content
      Don't let the parse_head callback append to the HTTP headers
      Don't set Range header on request when max_size is used [RT#17208]
      Still show client headers for internal responses
      Document Client-Warning: Internal response
      Don't use 'no' as example domain for no_proxy docs [RT#43728]
      Drop exit from the Makefile.PL [RT#43060]
      Merge branch 'content_charset'

Alex Kapranoff (1):

Support "accept-charset" attribute in HTML::Form

Mark Stosberg (1):

new tests for max_size and 206 responses [RT#46230]

murphy (1):

Reformulation of Client-Warning: Internal documentation

Gisle Aas (2):

      Avoid returning stale Content-Type header after message parts have been updated
      Don't let content saved to file be affected by the $\ setting

Graeme Thompson (1):

Issues around multipart boundaries [RT#28970]

Mike Schilli (1):

Ignore random _proxy env variables, allow only valid schemes

Slaven Rezic (1):

README.SSL is not anymore available at the linpro.no URL.

john9art (1):

Make LWP::UserAgent constructor honor the default_headers option [RT#16637]

Zefram (1):

Fixup test failure with perl-5.8.8 and older; qr/$/m doesn't work

Gisle Aas (7):

      Make format_request() ensure that it returns bytes [RT#42396]
      Force bytes in all the format_* methods.
      Ignore Sitemap: lines in robots.txt [RT#42420]
      Refactor; use variable to hold the test port
      Add redirects method to HTTP::Message
      Setting $ua->max_redirect(0) didn't work [RT#40260]
      Convert files to UTF-8

Zefram (2):

      HTTP::Cookies destructor should not clobber $! and other globals.
      Deal with the Encode module distributed with perl-5.8.0

Ian Kilgore (1):

Avoid failure if 127.0.0.1:8333 is in use [RT#42866]

Ville Skyttä (1):

Documentation improvements, spelling fixes.

Gisle Aas (4):

      Bring back the LWP::Debug code [RT#41759]
      Add documentation section about 'Network traffic monitoring'.
      Typo fixes
      Want to ensure we get a single value back here.

Gisle Aas (4):

      A more modern user_agent example.
      Make it possible to unset the proxy settings again
      Prefer use specified Content-Length header [RT#41462]
      Deprecate LWP::Debug

Various bug fixes.

Gisle Aas (3):

      The Content-Length and Content-MD5 headers are no longer valid after encode/decode
      Add META information
      croak on bad proxy args [RT#39919]

Slaven Rezic (1):

Skip a failing decoded_content on systems without Encode.pm [RT#40735]

Steve Hay (1):

Skip LWP test when fork() is unimplemented

Yuri Karaban (1):

redo used incorrectly in LWP::Protocol::http [RT#41116]

jefflee (1):

HTTP::Cookies::Microsoft now handles user names with space [RT#40917]

ruff (1):

Avoid aborting requests saved to file early [RT#40985]

Main news is the ability to control the heuristics used to determine the expiry time for response objects.

Gisle Aas (8):

      Reformat later parts of Changes
      Add a paragraph to summarize the motivation for releases since 5.815
      all_pod_files_ok();
      Fix POD markup error
      Calculation of current_age with missing Client-Date.
      The age/freshness methods now take an optional 'time' argument
      More correct matching of 'max-age' in freshness_lifetime method
      The freshness_lifetime method now support options to control its heuristics

Release 5.815 to 5.818 had a severe bug that sometimes made LWP not collect all data for the responses it received. This release is strongly recommended as an upgrade for those releases.

Gisle Aas (2):

      Don't override $Net::HTTPS::SSL_SOCKET_CLASS if it's already set.
      Wrong content handlers would sometimes be skipped [RT#40187]

Main news in this release is the addition of the dump() method to the request and response objects. If found that I often ended up printing $resp->as_string for debugging and then regretting after the terminal got into a strange mode or just kept on scrolling for the longest time.

Gisle Aas (8):

      Use deflate compression instead of gzip for the test
      Simplify; Get rid of the $USE_STORABLE_DCLONE configuration
      Add dump method to HTTP::Message.
      Use $res->dump instead of rolling our own.
      Layout change; move headers() methods to a more logical place.
      Add support for x-bzip2 encoding; fix bzip2 decoding.
      Add send_header method to HTTP::Daemon
      Make the lwp-request User-Agent string include the LWP version.

Slaven Rezic (1):

clone implemented in terms of Storable::dclone [RT#39611]

This is the release where I played around with Devel::NYTProf to figure where time was actually spent during the processing of requests with LWP. The methods that manipulated header objects stood out, so this release contains a few tweaks to make those parts faster.

I also figured a few convenience methods to encode and decode the content of request/response objects would be in order.

Gisle Aas (16):

      Should store "wire" headers field names with  without translation.
      Test HTTP::Request->parse().
      Restore pre-5.815 behaviour of returning "400 Bad Request" [RT#39694]
      Rename the HTTP::Status constants to have HTTP prefix
      Detection of unsupported schemes was broken [RT#37637]
      Allow tainted methods to be forwarded to HTTP::Headers [RT#38736]
      Add strict mode to HTML::Form
      Fix test now that less warnings are generated.
      Add content_is_xml method
      Make split_header_words() lower case returned tokens/keys
      Avoid invoking AUTOLOAD on object destruction [RT#39852]
      Add decode() method to HTTP::Message
      Add encode() method to HTTP::Message
      Allow multiple fields to be set with push_header().
      Make content_type and content_is_xhtml methods faster
      Faster push_header()

Oops, release 5.815 broke download-to-file on Windows.

Gisle Aas (2):

      Add missing binmode() [RT#39668]
      Doc tweaks

The main change this time is the introduction of handlers to drive the processing of requests in LWP::UserAgent. You can also register your own handlers for modifying and processing requests or responses on their way, which I think is a much more flexible approach that trying to subclass LWP::UserAgent to customize it. If we have had these early on then the LWP::UserAgent API could have been so much simpler as the effect of most current attributes can easily be set up with trivial handlers.

Also thanks to contributions by Bron Gondwana LWP's Basic/Digest authenticate modules now registers handlers which allow them to automatically fill in the Authorization headers without first taking the round-trip of a 401 response when LWP knows the credentials for a given realm.

Gisle Aas (23):

      We don't need to build the docs to run the tests.
      Style tweaks.
      The jigsaw service isn't up to much good these days.
      HTTP::Cookies produces warnings for undefined cookie param names [RT#38480]
      Typo fix; HTTP::Message will never include x-bzip2 in Accept-Encoding [RT#38617]
      Added HTTP::Config module
      Add methods to configure processing handlers.
      100 Continue response not complete.
      Use 3-arg open when response content to files.
      Make the show_progress attribute official (by documenting it).
      Start using handlers for driving the inner logic of LWP::UserAgent.
      Expose the content_is_html and content_is_xhtml methods from HTTP::Headers.
      Make credentials method able to get/set values.
      An auth handler per realm.
      Match proxy setting for request.
      Set up separate handler for adding proxy authentication.
      Add request_preprepare to be able to initialize proxy early enough.
      Smarter get_my_handler() that can also create handlers.
      Refactor; introduce run_handlers method
      Pass in handler hash to the handler callback.
      Don't let version=1 override behaviour if specified with a plan Set-Cookie header.
      Remove handler when we don't have a username/password for the realm.
      Make tests use Test.pm

Bron Gondwana (2):

      Double-check that username or password has changed after a failed login.
      Update Digest Authen to subclass Basic.

Ondrej Hanak (1):

Avoid running out of filehandles with DYNAMIC_FILE_UPLOAD.

Todd Lipcon (1):

Fixed parsing of header values starting with ':' [RT#39367]

amire80 (1):

Documentation typo fixes [RT#38203]

Gisle Aas (13):

      Typo fix.
      Add HTTP::Message::decodable()
      Use decoded_content in the synopsis
      Avoid adding an empty first part in $mess->add_part()
      Get rid of all the manual dependency tests.
      Simplify the Makefile.PL (no interactivity)
      Provide DELETE method in HTTP::Request::Common [RT#37481]
      Checkbox picks up nearby text in description of alternates [RT#36771]
      HTML::Form::possible_values() should not returned disabled values [RT#35248]
      File::Listing documentation claimed only 'unix' format was supported [RT#22021]
      File::Listing only support English locales [RT#28879]
      Make common-req.t use Test.pm
      Typo; CAN_TALK_TO_OUTSELF

Bill Mann (1):

Fix up File::Listings fallback to dosftp [RT#23540]

Hans-H. Froehlich (1):

File::Listing parse failure on BSD Linux based systems [RT#26724]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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 compatibility 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 has a decoded_content() method. This will return the content after any Content-Encodings and charsets have 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. Microsoft's 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>.

NTLM 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 successful 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 fixupheader 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 rbuflength 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>

• Release 5.47
• Added HTML::Form to the distribution.
• LWP::Protocol::ftp: Make it URI.pm compatible. We broke it in 5.45.
• LWP::Protocol::http: Kill any Connection header
• LWP::MediaTypes: Fixed builtin html/text mapping. Added bz2 to suffixEncoding

1999-10-28 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>

• Release 5.46
• Updated mailing list address
• Avoid warnings for lwp-request -t
• referrer as alternative spelling for referer as suggested by tchrist.
• More conservative selection of boundary for multipart messages in &HTTP::Request::Common::POST.
• LWP::MediaTypes can now export &read_media_types.
• Spelling corrections from Ben Tilly <Ben_Tilly@trepp.com>

1999-09-20 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>

• Release 5.45
• The LWP SSL support better explained. Documentation in README.SSL and lwpcook.pod contributed by Marko Asplund <aspa@hip.fi>.
• LWP::Protocol::https: Try loading IO::Socket::SSL if Net::SSL is not available.
• lwp-mirror -t option did not work.
• defined(@ISA) eliminated. Patch by Nathan Torkington <gnat@frii.com>
• LWP::Protocol::ftp: Protect against empty path_segments

1999-06-25 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>

• Release 5.44
• We require URI-1.03, since this fix some query quoting stuff that HTTP::Request::Common rely upon.
• 'lwp-request -HUser-Agent:foo' can now be used to set this header too.
• Localize $/ to ensure standard record separator a few places in HTTP::Cookies
• 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>

• Release 5.43
• New lwp-request command line option that allow you to put any header into the request (-H).
• 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).
• Y2K fix to t/base/cookies.t. Netscape's original cookie example expires at 09-Nov-99.
• Added another binmode() to LWP::Protocol::file as suggested by Matt Sergeant <matt-news@sergeant.org>

1999-03-20 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>

• Release 5.42
• MacOS patches from Paul J. Schinder <schinder@leprss.gsfc.nasa.gov>
• Documentation patch from Michael A. Chase <mchase@ix.netcom.com>
• PREREQ_PM patch from Andreas Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
• LWP::Simple::head fix by Richard Chen <richard@lexitech.com>
• "LWP fails with PerlEXE"-patch from Gurusamy Sarathy
• Allow "." in HTTP header names. Patch by Marc Langheinrich <marc@ccm.cl.nec.co.jp>
• Fixed reference to $uri->netloc in lwp-request
• Cute animation in lwp-download

Mon Nov 19 1998 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>

• Release 5.41
• 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>.
• HTTP::Cookies now ignore the Expires field in Set-Cookie, if the date provided can't be parsed by HTTP::Date.
• 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.
• LWP::Protocol::gopher: IO::Socket::INET ctor did not specify Proto => 'tcp'. This made it less portable to older IO::Socket versions.
• No programs installed when you build the Makefile with 'perl Makefile.PL LIB=/my/lib'
• LWP bundle mention Digest::MD5 instead of MD5
• headers-auth.t test suite bug triggered by perl5.005_5x. Patch by Albert Dvornik <bert@genscan.com>
• 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>

• Release 5.40_01
• Unbundled URI::URL modules. You now have to install the URI.pm module in order to get libwww-perl working.
• Made library URI.pm compatible. Made all URI object instantiations based on $HTTP::URI_CLASS variable.
• New lwp-rget option: --referer. Patch by INOUE Yoshinari <inoue@kusm.kyoto-u.ac.jp>.
• One more binmode() to HTTP::Daemon as suggested by Markus Laker <mlaker@contax.co.uk>.

Tue Aug 4 1998 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>

• Release 5.36
• The lwp-download script will call $ua->env_proxy now.
• The lwp-request script allows content types (specified with the -c option) with optional parameters like: multipart/mixed; boundary="--".
• LWP::UserAgent will lowercase all authentication parameter names before passing it to the authentication module. Previous releases ignored parameters like; Realm="Foo" (because Realm contained upper case letters).
• LWP::Protocol::ftp test for If-Modified-Since was wrong.
• 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.
• The anonymous password guesser for ftp URLs will now call the external `whoami` program any more. Patch by Charles C. Fu <ccwf@bacchus.com>.
• LWP::Protocol::http now allow dynamic requests without any Content-Length specified when Content-Type is multipart/*
• 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>

• Release 5.35
• More lwp-rget patches from David D. Kilzer <ddkilzer@madison.dseg.ti.com>. Adds the following new options: --iis, --keepext, --tolower
• 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>

• Release 5.34
• 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>
• $url->path_components will not escape "." any more.
• WWW::RobotRules will now work for Mac text files too (lines delimited by CR only). Patch by Olly Betts <olly@muscat.co.uk>
• lwp-rget support <area ..> links too.

Thu May 7 1998 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>

• Release 5.33
• LWP::Simple::get() did try to handle too many of the 3xx codes as redirect when it bypasses full LWP.
• LWP::UserAgent->mirror will now use utime(2) to set the file modification time corresponding to the Last-Modified header.
• LWP::Protocol::http will not modify the HTTP::Request that it is processing. This avoids sticky Host header for redirects.
• URI::Heuristic and lwp-download documentation update.

Wed Apr 15 1998 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>

• Release 5.32
• 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>

• Release 5.31
• Makefile.PL now checks that HTML::HeadParser is present.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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"
• LWP::UserAgent will not follow more than 13 redirects

  automatically.

Wed Apr 1 1998 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>

• Release 5.30
• 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
• Simplified internal structure of HTTP::Headers. Hopefully,

  nobody will notice.

• New modules HTTP::Headers::Auth, HTTP::Headers::ETag that adds additional convenience methods to the HTTP::Headers class.
• 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>

• Release 5.22
• 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>.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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>.
• LWP::UserAgent allows redirects to a relative URL with scheme to be made. Suggested by Chris W. Unger <cunger@cas.org>.
• 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>

• Release 5.21
• 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.
• File::CounterFile protect against bad $/ and $\ as suggested by Frank Hoehne.
• File::Listing used "next" when return was more appropriate. Patch by erik@mediator.uni-c.dk.
• HTML::Element support for multiple boolean attributes for a single element. Patch by Philip Guenther.
• Can set $HTTP::Headers::TRANSLATE_UNDERSCORE to FALSE value to suppress tr/_/-/ of header keys.
• LWP::Protocol::http will not initialize the Host header if it is already set.
• LWP::Protocol::http did not handle responses with no header lines correctly. Patch by Daniel Buenzli <buenzli@rzu.unizh.ch>
• $url->rel() handles path segments without leading "/" better.

Fri Feb 13 1998 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>

• Release 5.20
• Fixed the "500 Offset outside string" bug that affected perl 5.004_03 and older version of Perl.
• Fixed a documentation typo spotted by Michael Quaranta <quaranta@vnet.IBM.COM>
• HTTP::Date: Protect against croaking from timegm/timelocal.

Mon Jan 26 1998 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>

• Release 5.19
• HTML::Parser does not call $self->text() callback for empty text any more.
• LWP::Protocol::https was noisy when connections failed and the script was running with '-w' (noise inherited from IO::Socket::INET)
• $ua->use_alarm(BOOL) now gives a warning if running with -w

Tue Jan 20 1998 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>

• Developer release 5.18_05
• HTTPS support based on my Crypt-SSLeay module. The Net-SSLeay module is not supported any more.
• lwp-request documentation typo spotted Martijn Koster.
• Removed superfluous \\ in the URI::Escape regex. This was also spotted by Martijn.
• File::Listing now handles timezones correctly.
• Added $VERSION to modules that was missing it.
• Added 'use strict' to several modules that was missing it.
• LWP::Protocol::http now adds the Client-Peer header to responses and has hooks for more callbacks.
• 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.
• HTML::Parse is back. (It was even used in lwpcook.pod)

Wed Dec 17 1997 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>

• Developer release 5.18_04
• Makefile.PL fix based on report from Pon Hwa Lin <koala@fragment.com>
• lwp-request will now print the response code message with -s and -S options.
• Hide IO::Socket::INET noise when running under -w
• Don't set 'Content-Length: 0' in HTTP requests.
• LWP::Protocol::http now calls LWP::Debug::conns again

Tue Dec 16 1997 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>

• Developer release 5.18_03
• 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.
• LWP::Protocol::ftp patch from Tony Finch <fanf@demon.net>.
• Removed deprecated modules from the distribution; HTML::Parse, LWP::Socket, LWP::SecureSocket, LWP::IO, LWP::TkIO.

Fri Dec 12 1997 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>

• Release 5.18
• HTTP authorization patches from Tony Finch <fanf@demon.net>. Allows "user:pass@" in HTTP URLs.
• HTML::Parser patch by Brian McCauley <B.A.McCauley@bham.ac.uk>. Pass original text to end() method.
• The HTML::Parser->netscape_buggy_comment method is deprecated. Use HTML::Parser->strict_comment instead. The default value has changed with the name.
• Some HTML::Parser optimization tweaks.
• New module named HTML::Filter
• Updated HTTP::Headers to the latest HTTP spec. Added knowledge about the "Trailer", "Expect", "TE", "Accept-Range" headers. "Public" header is gone.
• Added some more header convenience methods: if_unmodified_since, content_language, and proxy_authorization methods.
• HTTP::{Request,Response}->clone can handle subclasses now.
• HTTP::Request->url() can now undefine the URL.
• HTTP::{Request,Response}->as_string format looks more like the HTTP protocol formatting now. Dashed lines above and below is gone.
• Documented HTTP::Response->status_line method
• Compressed HTML::Response->error_as_HTML output
• HTTP::Status updated to latest HTTP spec. Added RC_REQUEST_RANGE_NOT_SATISFIABLE (416)

Tue Dec 2 1997 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>

• Release 5.17
• 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.
• HTML::Formatter will always add a blank line for <br>.
• Avoid use of uninitialized value in HTTP::Daemon.
• HTTP::Date allows seconds when recognizing 'ls -l' dates. This allows us to parse syslog time stamps.
• HTTP::Request::Common::POST allows a hash reference as second argument (in addition to an array reference).
• LWP::Simple will initialize the $ua if it is exported.
• Various documentation updates.

Fri Nov 21 1997 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>

• Release 5.16
• LWP::Simple::head() would die in array context because str2time was not imported any more.
• HTTP::Daemon->accept now takes an optional package argument like IO::Socket->accept does.
• Made HTTP::Request and HTTP::Response subclassable.
• Added Proxy-Authorization example to lwpcook.

Thu Nov 6 1997 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>

• Release 5.15
• New module URI::Heuristic
• 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.
• LWP::Simple::get() will bypass LWP for simple HTTP requests. This should make it somewhat faster.
• 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.
• URI::URL::rel() will handle URLs to a fragment within the same document better. Initial patch from Nicolai Langfeldt <janl@math.uio.no>.
• 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.
• Added lots of modern tags to HTML::AsSubs.
• 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>

• Release 5.14
• HTML::Formatter patches from Andreas Gustafsson <gson@araneus.fi>. The formatters handling of whitespace is much better now. Thanks!
• HTML::FormatText: can specify margins in the constructor.
• URI::URL: the base will be absolutized internally now.
• URI::URL will take advantage of void context provided by perl5.004. This means that using $u->path and $u->query should be safer now.
• URI::URL->print_on defaults to STDERR now (used to be STDOUT).
• URI::URL: removed version 3 compatibility stuff ($COMPAT_VER_3).
• $ua->mirror should work better on dosish systems (can not rename when target file exists).
• Typo in lwp-download prevented it from compiling.
• Some minor documentations typos corrected.

Sat Sep 20 1997 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>

• Release 5.13
• 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.
• 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.
• New header utility functions in HTTP::Headers::Util.
• 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>
• OpenVMS patch for Font:AFM by Brad Hughes <brad@tmc.naecker.com>

Fri Sep 5 1997 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>

• Release 5.12
• decode_entities() would sometimes introduce ";" after things that looked like they were entities.
• HTML::LinkExtor knows about <applet code="...">
• Patch from Gary Shea <shea@gtsdesign.com> that makes the tests work even if perl is not called "perl"
• HTTP::Date handles 12:00PM correctly now. Patch from William York <william@mathworks.com>
• HTTP::Request::Common don't quote the boundary string for multipart/form-data messages any more.
• 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>

• Release 5.11
• Perl version 5.004 is now required for libwww-perl.
• Win32 patches from Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>. Now passes all tests on that platform.
• HTTPS support contributed by Josh Kronengold <mneme@mcny.com>
• Support hex entities &#xFF; HTML::Entities::(en|de)code only modify their argument in void context.
• Fixed formatter bug with <font> tags which did not specify size.
• Better HTML::HeadParser documentation
• Fixed HTML::LinkExtor documentation typo spotted by Martijn.
• HTTP::Request::Common now use CRLF for multipart/form-data

Fri Jun 20 1997 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>

• Release 5.10
• Make '+' a reserved URL character. Decode unescaped '+' as space in $url->query_form().
• Use $Config{d_alarm} to determine default for $ua->use_alarm()

Tue Jun 10 1997 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>

• Release 5.09
• Removed the MIME modules from the distribution. They are distributed separately now.
• Added a new module called HTTP::Request::Common
• Improved HTTP::Status documentation. It is now also possible to import the is_client_error/is_server_error functions.
• LWP::MediaTypes::guess_media_type() can now take an optional HTTP::Header parameter.
• LWP::Protocol ensures that scheme is legal as module name.
• 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.
• WWW::RobotRules::AnyDBM_File: Some DBMs fail to allow multiple opens of the same file. Patch from Mark James <jamesm@skate.org>
• Created Bundle::LWP

Sat Apr 5 1997 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>

• Release 5.08
• Made libwww-perl warning compatible with upcoming perl5.004beta2 (aka 5.003_98)
• encode_base64() did not work properly if pos() of the string to encode was different from 0.
• HTML::Parser was confused about "</" when it did not start an end tag.
• HTML::FormatPS will provide ISOLatin1Encoding in its output.
• Calling HTML::LinkExtor->links will clear out old links.
• url()->rel($base) would ignore the $base argument.
• Don't croak() when setting url()->path().

Tue Feb 11 1997 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>

• Release 5.07
• Can limit the size of the response content with $ua->max_size()
• Added time2iso() functions to HTTP::Date.
• Made LWP::Protocol::http more portable to the MacPerl. /./ match different things on MacPerl.

Mon Jan 27 1997 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>

• Release 5.06
• URI::URL is now compatible with perl5.004 overloading.
• HTML::HeadParser makes X-Meta-Name headers for <meta> elements that does not specify an 'http-equiv' attribute.
• URI::URL::ftp does not die if Net::Domain is not installed and you ask for an anonymous username or password.
• WWW::RobotRules: The robots.txt parser did not ignore comment lines as it should.
• LWP::Protocol::http is more forgiving towards servers that return bad responses.
• Allow "?" before search string in gopher URLs.
• LWP::Protocol::file did not escape funny filenames when generating HTML directory listings.
• LWP::Protocol::ftp now gets the Content-Encoding correct. 'CODE' content in PUT requests also work now.
• Relative locations in redirects did not work with URI::URL::strict.
• OS/2 portability patches from Ilya Zakharevich
• LWP::Authen::* patch from Doug MacEachern
• Support experimental data:- URLs
• 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>

• Release 5.05
• LWP::UserAgent::simple_request: local($SIG{__DIE__}) protects us against user defined die handlers.
• Use Net::Domain (instead of Sys::Hostname) to determine FQDN. It is used by URI::URL when it determines anonymous ftp login address.
• lwp-download: New program in the bin directory
• HTML::Parser: Allow '_' in attribute names. This makes it possible to parse Netscape's bookmarks.html file.
• HTTP::Daemon: Fixed chunked transfer encoding and multipart content in get_request(). Support HTTP/0.9 clients.
• Don't clobber regex variables when HTTP::Message delegates methods to the header.
• Base64::decode_base64 now checks that the length input string to decode is a multiple of 4.
• t/robot/rules-dbm.t clean up better and will use AnyDBM for dumping
• File::CounterFile: $/ strikes again by Andreas König
• File::Listing updates from William York <william@mathworks.com>. We can now parse the MS-Windows ftp server listings.
• HTTP::Date now supports the MS-Windows 'dir' date format. Patch by William York.
• LWP::MediaTypes::media_suffix will return first type in scalar context.

Tue Oct 22 1996 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>

• Release 5.04
• 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.
• HTTP::Message support the protocol() method. Used by HTTP::Daemon.
• HTTP::Response can be constructed with a header and content as argument.
• Typo corrections in the documentation.
• File::Listing::parse_dir accepts "GMT" as timezone now.
• HTML::Parser will call the start() method with two new parameters; $attrseq, $origtext.
• Integrated HTML::FormatPS patches from Jim Stern <jstern@world.northgrum.com>
• Class modules don't inherit from AutoLoader any more. They just import the AUTOLOAD method.
• LWP::Protocol will untaints scheme before loading protocol module.
• Digest does not send "opaque" if it was not present in the request. The "Extension" header is not returned any more.
• New method: $url->crack that will return a list of the various elements in a URI::URL.
• 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>

• Release 5.03
• 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.
• 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.
• HTML::Parser: Use new $p->eof to signal end of document instead of $p->parse(undef).
• HTML::Element::starttag() is now smarter about which quotes it use around attribute values.
• New HTTP::Response methods: current_age(), freshness_lifetime(), is_fresh(), fresh_until().
• HTTP::Message: New method ($mess->content_ref) which will return a reference to the current content.
• 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>
• URI::URL: $url->query_form can now take array references as value specification. For instance: $url->query_form(foo => ['bar', 'baz']
• Avoid '"my" variable $var masks earlier declaration in same scope' warnings in perl5.003_05.

Wed Sep 11 1996 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>

• Release 5.02
• lwp-rget: Initialize proxy settings from environment
• HTML::Entities::encode_entities: Don't encode $ and %
• HTML::LinkExtor::links: Now works when no links were found.
• HTTP::Headers::as_string: Allow \n in header value

Tue Aug 1 1996 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>

• Release 5.01.
• Updated ftp protocol module to be compatible with Net::FTP version 2.00 (the version found in libnet-1.00)
• New HTML parser module called HTML::LinkExtor
• Various documentation typo corrections. Most of these contributed by Bob Dalgleish.
• HTML::HeadParser updates 'Content-Base' instead of 'Base'. It also updates the 'Link' header based on <link ...>
• HTTP::Headers and HTTP::Status updated according to draft-ietf-http-v11-spec-06
• HTTP::Headers can now use "_" as alternative to "-" in field names.
• HTTP::Response::base now looks for 'Content-Base', 'Content-Location' and 'Base' headers.
• Avoid warning in LWP::MediaTypes if $ENV{HOME} is not defined.
• The new $ua->parse_head() method can be used to turn off automatic initialization of response headers from the <HEAD> section of HTML documents.
• Added eq() method for URI::URL objects
• 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>

• Release 5.00.
• LWP::Simple::head() now return something useful in scalar context.
• 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.
• Implemented HTML::HeadParser. This is a lightweight parser for the <HEAD> section of a HTML document.
• HTML::Element had problem with presenting things like <foo bar="bar">.
• HTML::Entities: Included additional ISO-8859/1 entities listed in RFC1866.
• HTML::AsSubs exported 'header' instead of 'head'
• We know about a few more of the HTML 3.2 element.
• HTTP::Date had problems with years before 1970, because Time::Local went into an infinite loop. Check for this.
• Added $header->title method.
• Made $header->authorization_basic return "uname:passwd" in scalar context
• 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="..." ...>.
• Simplified $response->base implementation, because we don't have to look into the content any more.
• Added -quiet option to lwp-rget
• Typo fixes and some documentation additions.

Thu May 9 1996 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>

• Release 5b13
• 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.
• Ensure correct $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR and $OUTPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR at places where we <> or print.
• Always localize $_ before any 'while(<FILE>) {}'-loops
• Implemented $protocol->collect_once() and simplified several of the protocol implementations by using it.
• 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.";

• The HTML parser does not ignore whitespace-only text any more.
• HTML::Parse warnings are now optional and turned off by default.
• New start for $html->as_HTML().
• Fixed some typos

Wed Apr 24 1996 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>

• Release 5b12
• New utility program called 'lwp-rget'.
• $response->base was broken for HTML documents
• New fancy LWP::Debug import() method. Can now turn on debugging with "use LWP::Debug '+';"
• Trap exceptions (die) from the response callback routine
• The RobotUA now requires an e-mail address of the person responsible for the robot.
• New $ua->from() method.
• Support for gopher Index-Search (gopher type '7' requests). Contributed by Harry Bochner <bochner@das.harvard.edu>
• Cleaned up white-space usage in the source.

Wed Apr 3 1996 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>

• Release 5b11
• Implemented a NNTP protocol module. The library can now fetch and post news articles.
• More documentation
• Don't look at the URI header for redirects
• New $res->base() method for HTTP::Responses
• Graham Barr's patch to File::Listing to make it more OO internally
• content_type() return value is canonicalized
• $ua->request() does not die on bad URLs any more
• LWP::MediaTypes merge all media.types files that if finds
• FTP request with content to file or callback did not work
• The value of HTTP Host: header is now $url->netloc;
• The URI::URL constructor now accept URLs wrapped up in "<>"
• $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.
• Added prototypes to the HTTP::Status::is_xxx() functions
• Added prototypes to the MIME:: encoding/decoding functions
• Always return scheme for mailto and news URLs (as_string)
• RobotRules patches from Henry A Rowley.
• More tests
• <SMALL> and <BIG> again

Thu Mar 14 1996 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>

• Release 5b10
• GET ftp://host/doc was never successful for normal files.
• LWP::Socket: read_until() did not notice EOF condition. 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.
• Added support for Digest Access Authentication. Contributed by Doug MacEachern <dougm@osf.org>.
• Makefile.PL: check for MD5 library
• No longer print message content in HTTP::Response::error_as_HTML()
• Access to "file:/path" gave warning when the environment variable no_proxy was set.
• The http-post test sends a Content-Type header. Some servers hang if this header is missing.
• HTML::Parse:
  • allow <SMALL> and <BIG> tags
  • allow empty attribute values

Tue Mar 5 1996 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>

• Release 5b9
• Started to write on the libwww-perl cookbook (lwpcook.pod)
• The URI::URL module now exports the function url(). This is an alternative (easy to use) constructor function.
• Expanding relative file URLs starting with "#" did not work.
• Fixed autoloaded DESTROY problem by adding empty DESTROY routine to URI::URL.
• Does not try generate password for ftp-URLs unless the username is "anonymous" or "ftp"
• The LWP::Simple user agent proxy settings are initialized from the proxy environment variables.
• LWP::Protocol::ftp: Use the Net::FTP library to access ftp servers. Convert directories to HTML on request (Accept: text/html).
• New module HTTP::Negotiate
• New module File::Listing
• 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.
• Added prototypes to the HTTP::Date functions.
• The library adds a timestamp to responses ("Client-Date")
• HTTP::Status: Updated to proposed HTTP/1.1
• HTTP::Headers: Updated to proposed HTTP/1.1
• LWP::Protocol::http: Updated to HTTP/1.1 methods
• Took out stringify overloading in HTML::Element.

Mon Feb 26 1996 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>

• Release 5b8
• Renamed functions using thisStyleOfNames to this_style_of_names. Provided a script called 'update_from_5b7'
• Renamed the 'request' and 'mirror' scripts to 'lwp-request' and 'lwp-mirror'. The GET, POST, HEAD aliases for 'lwp-request' are the same.
• Implemented LWP::RobotUA
• Class name for RobotRules did not match the file name
• 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
• HTTP::Date::time2str now works correctly with '0' as argument
• HTTP::Message delegates unknown methods to the headers.
• HTTP::Request::uri is an alias for HTTP::Request::url. Can set the URL to undef.
• Added convenience methods to HTTP::Headers for easy access to frequently used headers.
• Simplified LWP::Debug
• Use standard AutoLoader for LWP::IO functions.
• Played with the profiler (Devel::DProf) and made some things go quicker.
• 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>

• Release 5b7
• Perl5.002 is required now
• 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

• URI::Escape now semi-compile regular expressions (by evaling an

  anonymous sub). Same technique is also used in HTML::Entities.

• HTTP::Date parser rewritten using regular expressions.
• HTTP::Headers->as_string() now croaks if any field values contain newline.
• HTTP::Status constants use empty prototype.
• Font metrics moved to a new subdirectory (lib/Font/Metrics)
• Don't use the VERSION script any more (even if it was very clever)
• HTML::Entities will now export the names decode_entities() and encode_entities().
• Andreas Koenig's black patch to HTML::Element.
• The HTML::Formatter now knows about <menu> and <dir> tags
• The construct "defined ref($arg)" did not work on perl5.002 because ref now always return something defined.
• LWP::UserAgent sends by default an 'User-Agent' header.
• LWP::Simple sends 'User-Agent' header to servers.
• Updated the LWP::Socket module to use the new Socket.pm interface.
• LWP::Protocol::http sends the new HTTP/1.1 'Host' header.
• 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.
• 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>

• Release 5b6
• Installation should work better for those that still runs perl4 as 'perl'. The mirror script is not installed by default.
• LWP::Socket::_getaddress() Numerical IP addresses did not work.
• LWP::Socket::pushback() did not work. This also avoids the bad pp_select() core dump from perl.
• LWP::IO now also selects on socket exceptions.
• HTML::Parse: Ignore <!DOCTYPE ...> regardless for case. Some bad insertElement() calls made infinite loops.
• The uri.t test works better for places where /tmp is a sym-link.

Sat Sep 16 1995 Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>

• Release 5b5
• newlocal URI::URL does not put "//localhost" into the URLs any longer.
• 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.
• 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>

• Speedups and bug fixes in the HTML parser. The parser now understands some more deprecated tags (like <xmp> and <listing>).
• HTML::Elements are now stringified using perl overloading. The interface to the traverse() callback has changed.
• Implemented HTML formatters for plain text and Postscript.
• Added lib/Font stuff to support the Postscript formatter.
• Inspired by Tim Bunce, I implemented the HTML::AsSubs module. Don't know if it is really useful.
• The local/get test does not use /etc/passwd any more.

Thu Sep 7 1995 Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>

• Changed package name to libwww-perl-5xx
• Made LWP::Protocol::ftp actually transfer data
• 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>

• Release 0.04
• Implemented modules to parse HTML.

Mon Sep 4 1995 Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>

• Implemented Mail::Cap which will become part of the MailTools package.
• Moved Base64 to MIME::Base64. Reimplemented MIME::Base64 by using [un]pack("u",...) Implemented LWP::MIME::QuotedPrint for completeness' sake. Routine names has changed as suggested by Tim Bunce.
• LWP::MediaType reads default types from media.types file. guessMediaType() now also returns encodings. New function mediaSuffix()
• Pass $url to $ua->getBasicCredentials(). This also fixes security hole with the old implementation of getBasicCredentials().
• LWP::Protocol::file now sets Content-Encoding headers
• Allow request content to be provided by a callback routine.
• 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.
• URI::URL. Remove port from netloc if it is the default port. Don't use anything, just require.
• HTTP::Message->addContent() does not need a reference parameter.
• 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().
• Does not die in LWP::UserAgent->request()
• LWP::Socket now use LWP::IO for low level IO
• Implemented LWP::TkIO as a replacement module for LWP::IO when using Tk.

Thu Aug 17 1995 Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>

• $ua->redirectOK() for checking redirects
• reorganized tests in the "t" directory.

Fri Aug 11 1995 Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>

• Release 0.03
• Included RobotRules.pm from Martijn Koster

Thu Aug 10 1995 Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>

• New module URI::Escape (URI::URL use this module for default escaping) that provide the uri_escape() and uri_unescape() functions.
• Setting $url->scheme now changes the class of the object.
• Made $httpurl->user() and $httpurl->password() illegal. Likewise for other URL schemes.

Wed Aug 9 1995 Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>

• 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

• HTTP::Date parses ctime format with missing timezone as suggested by Roy Fielding <fielding@beach.w3.org>
• HTTP::Status and LWP::MediaTypes exports their functions by default.
• 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>

• 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.
• Can remove multiple headers with single removeHeader() call in MIMEheader.
• Can assign multiple field/value pairs in header() method of MIMEheader.
• A field with multiple values is printed as separate values in MIMEheader::as_string().
• LWP::Response contain new attributes: previous() and request(). These attributes are updated by the UserAgent.
• Appended \n to some die statements in Socket so that line numbers are suppressed in error messages.
• Made UserAgent::clone work for reference members
• Check for redirect loops and multiple authorization failures by examination of the response chain.
• Use "\015\012" instead of "\r\n" in protocol modules. Some systems define \r and \n differently.
• request program can now handle documents that needs authorization 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>

• Release 0.02
• Included URI::URL in the release

Mon Jul 24 1995 Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>

• 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
• Renamed bin/get to bin/request. Links to it are now all upper case.
• Proxy support in bin/request (provided by Martijn Koster)
• UserAgent can now load proxy settings from environment
• LWP::Protocol::ftp is under way but not really finished

Tue Jul 18 1995 Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>

• Implemented LWP::Protocol::gopher
• Implemented LWP::Protocol::mailto
• Fixed proxy typo

Mon Jul 17 1995 Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>

• Made release 0.01

Mon Jul 17 1995 Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>

• Don't loose first line of HTTP/0.9 requests
• LWP::Socket use syswrite() for writing
• Added RC_* documentation to LWP::StatusCode
• LWP::Date now use hash to look up month numbers
• Added -f option to "get"
• Untabify
• Added a "TODO" list
• Fixed various typos

Fri Jul 14 1995 Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>

• Reorganized directories. Moved LWP.pm up. Moved file.pm and http.pm into the LWP::Protocol directory. Moved LWP out of the lib directory and removed lib.
• Implemented the "get" and "mirror" scripts in the "bin" directory.
• Implemented "install-lwp", "update_version" and "make-dist". The library version number is found in the VERSION file.
• Always adds 1900 to the year in LWP::Date
• In LWP::MIMEheader: Implemented clone(), removeHeader() and scan() methods. Reimplemented asString. Removed asMIME(). Moved "Good Practice" into this file, and reimplemented it.
• Moved "header" and "content" into LWP::Message class. This change made LWP::Request and LWP::Response much simpler. Made clone() method actually work.
• LWP::Protocol::implementor does not die if it cannot load package.
• Moved UserAgent convenience methods into LWP::Simple. Made LWP::Simple export LWP::StatusCode symbols and functions.
• Implemented $ua->isProtocolSupported($scheme) method.
• Nicer directory listing in LWP::Protocol::file.pm
• Rely on URI::URL 3.00 behaviour for $url->full_path
• Library version number now in LWP.pm. You should be able to say "use LWP 1.0;" if you need at least this version.
• Various cleanups and arranging layout as I like it. Use fooBar-style (as opposed to foo_bar style) everywhere. This means that as_string() now is called asString().
• Added more documentation.

Wed Jun 14 1995 Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>

• Removed lot of redundant & before function calls.
• $this --> $self
• &collector passes content as a reference, don't want to copy so much
• parameterlist to collect callback has been rearranged
• Response::addContent gets a reference to the data
• Added some callback documentation to UserAgent.pm
• Protocol::file now uses the collector
• Introduced LWP::Simple

Sun Jun 11 1995 Martijn Koster <m.koster@nexor.co.uk>

• Added basic authentication support
• Added mirroring of single documents
• 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>

• Minor cleanups from printed code inspection

Wed May 24 1995 Martijn Koster <m.koster@nexor.co.uk>

• Added redirection resolution
• Added optional autoloading of protocols

Tue May 23 1995 Martijn Koster <m.koster@nexor.co.uk>

• Separated socket stuff into separate module
• Added HTTP proxy support
• Made alarm handling optional
• Added a LWP::Message for completeness sake
• Added LWP::MemberMixin to reduce code duplication
• Cosmetic changes to LWP::Date
• Renamed LWP::Error to LWP::StatusCode
• Renamed LWP::MIME to LWP::MIMEtype
• Changed the tests to cope with all this

It's getting there...

Mon May 22 1995 Martijn Koster <m.koster@nexor.co.uk>

• 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>

• Mentioned on libwww-perl that I had changed the classes around lots.