I've been going through the backlog in my LWP folder today and managed
to apply some of the patches found there. I now have to return to my
real work, but I still have lots of email I did not find time to look
into. The result so far has just been uploaded to CPAN as
libwww-perl-5.77. Feel free to remind me of important patches
missing, especially if the patch also comes with updates to the test
suite and documentation.
These are the changes since version 5.76:
LWP::Simple did not handle redirects properly when the "Location"
header used uncommon letter casing.
Patch by Ward Vandewege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
LWP::UserAgent passed the wrong request to redirect_ok().
Patch by Ville Skyttä <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
LWP::RobotUA did not parse robots.txt files that contained
"Disallow:" using uncommon letter casing.
Patch by Liam Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
WWW::RobotRules now allow leading space when parsing robots.txt
file as suggested by Craig Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
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
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
Experimental support for composite messages, currently
implemented by the HTTP::MessageParts module. Based on
ideas from Joshua Hoblitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
Fixed libscan in Makefile.PL.
Patch by Andy Lester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
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.
Enjoy!
Regards,
Gisle
