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Changes for version 6.27 - 2017-09-21

  • Switch to Getopt::Long in lwp-download (GH #262)
  • Fix lwp-request -C (GH #261)
  • Hide LWP::Protocol::http::Socket, LWP::Protocol::http::SocketMethods and LWP::Debug::TraceHTTP::Socket from PAUSE
  • Add tests for the "get" & "head" functions (GH #252)
  • Update lwpcook.pod (GH #256)
  • Handle undefined values in ->credentials (GH #157)
  • Fix lwp-mirror options checks.
  • Update bin/ scripts to use $LWP::VERSION instead of ->Version()
  • Improve lwp-download --help (GH #262)

Documentation

Fetch large files from the web
See what headers and content is returned for a URL
Simple mirror utility
The libwww-perl cookbook
An LWP Tutorial

Modules

LWP
The World-Wide Web library for Perl
Library for enabling NTLM authentication (Microsoft) in LWP
Connection cache manager
deprecated
Member access mixin class
Base class for LWP protocols
a class for well-behaved Web robots
simple procedural interface to LWP
Web user agent class

Provides

in lib/LWP/Authen/Basic.pm
in lib/LWP/Authen/Digest.pm
in lib/LWP/Debug/TraceHTTP.pm
in lib/LWP/DebugFile.pm
in lib/LWP/Protocol/ftp.pm
in lib/LWP/Protocol/cpan.pm
in lib/LWP/Protocol/data.pm
in lib/LWP/Protocol/file.pm
in lib/LWP/Protocol/ftp.pm
in lib/LWP/Protocol/gopher.pm
in lib/LWP/Protocol/http.pm
in lib/LWP/Protocol/loopback.pm
in lib/LWP/Protocol/mailto.pm
in lib/LWP/Protocol/nntp.pm
in lib/LWP/Protocol/nogo.pm