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- L I B W W W - P E R L - 5
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- The libwww-perl collection is a set of Perl modules which provides a
- simple and consistent application programming interface to the
- World-Wide Web. The main focus of the library is to provide classes
- and functions that allow you to write WWW clients. The library also
- contain modules that are of more general use and even classes that
- help you implement simple HTTP servers.
-
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- PREREQUISITES
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- In order to install and use this package you will need Perl version
- 5.6 or better. Some modules within this package depend on other
- packages that are distributed separately from Perl. We recommend that
- you have the following packages installed before you install
- libwww-perl:
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- URI
- MIME-Base64
- HTML-Tagset
- HTML-Parser
- libnet
- Digest-MD5
- Compress-Zlib
-
- If you want to access sites using the https protocol, then you need to
- install the Crypt::SSLeay or the IO::Socket::SSL module. The
- README.SSL file will tell you more about how libwww-perl supports SSL.
-
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- INSTALLATION
-
- You install libwww-perl using the normal perl module distribution drill:
-
- perl Makefile.PL
- make
- make test
- make install
-
- If you don't want to install any programs (only the library files) then
- pass the '--no-programs' option to Makefile.PL:
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- perl Makefile.PL --no-programs
-
-
- DOCUMENTATION
-
- See the lib/LWP.pm file for an overview of the library. See the
- Changes file for recent changes.
-
- POD style documentation is included in all modules and scripts. These
- are normally converted to manual pages and installed as part of the
- "make install" process. You should also be able to use the 'perldoc'
- utility to extract and read documentation from the module files
- directly.
-
-
- SUPPORT
-
- Bug reports and suggestions for improvements can be sent to the
- <libwww@perl.org> mailing list. This mailing list is also the place
- for general discussions and development of the libwww-perl package.
-
-
- AVAILABILITY
-
- The latest version of libwww-perl is available from CPAN:
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- http://search.cpan.org/dist/libwww-perl/
-
- If you want to hack on the source it might be a good idea to grab the
- latest version with git using the command:
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- git clone git://gitorious.org/libwww-perl/mainline.git lwp
-
- You can also browse the git repository at:
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- http://gitorious.org/projects/libwww-perl
-
-
- COPYRIGHT
-
- © 1995-2008 Gisle Aas. All rights reserved.
- © 1995 Martijn Koster. All rights reserved.
-
- This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- it under the same terms as Perl itself.
-
- Enjoy!
-