1.18 Thu Feb 2 00:11:26 CST 2006
[TESTS]
* Makefile.PL now takes four new parms:
* --live/nolive turns on/off the live tests
* --local/nolocal turns on/off the local tests
* --mech-dump/nomech-dump installs/doesn't the mech-dump program
* --all turns on all tests and installs mech-dump
* Fixed some failures in tests. Non-existent URLs now have a
"." postpended to them, so if someone's got a search domain
with a wildcard (i.e. ignore.us) it'll ignore that. Also,
Google's second link is now a https:// link, which some Mechs
can't handle. Added a 'url_regex' which now makes it look at
the second non-https link. Thanks to Pete Krawczyk.
1.16 Fri Oct 28 17:34:20 CDT 2005
[ENHANCEMENTS]
* Sped up Mech significantly (~20% in some cases). Images and
links are extracted from the HTML, and objects are created,
only when they're actually needed. This will be a speedup for
pages where you're only following links, or vice versa.
[THINGS THAT MAY BREAK YOUR CODE]
* If you've been relying on the $mech->{images} and $mech->{links}
fields being populated so that you can bypass the $mech->images()
and $mech->links() accessors, your code will break. That's OK,
because you should have been using the accessors all along.
1.14 Tue Aug 30 17:17:40 CDT 2005
[DOCUMENTATION]
* Added lots of new FAQs. Thanks to Peter Stevens.
[INTERNALS]
* Now requires Test::LongString. That's not too odious.
[FIXES]
* Tests now pass with the shuffling around that Google did.
1.13_01 Tue Apr 12 14:11:18 CDT 2005
[ENHANCEMENTS]
* Now dies if you call submit_form() with a non-existsing
form_number or form_name. Before, it would just warn.
[DOCUMENTATION]
* Added an example of using credentials() in the cookbook.
1.12 Thu Feb 24 23:38:44 CST 2005
[FIXES]
* Fixed RT #9026: hang in t/local/back.t under Windows XP.
Thanks Andrew Savige. It also should no longer complain
about being unable to clean up a temp file.
1.11_01 Mon Feb 14 00:12:48 CST 2005
[THINGS THAT MAY BREAK YOUR CODE]
* Removed deprecated _parse_html() method.
[FIXES]
* Was incorrectly looking for INPUT tags TYPE="SUBMIT" as images.
Thanks to Abe Timmerman.
[ENHANCEMENTS]
* Calling $mech->set_fields() with no current form now dies.
Thanks to Julien Beasley.
1.10
[FIXES]
* Fixed bug where images inside of links would not be found.
* Fixed test failures because of Google changes. Thanks to
Offer Kaye and others who sent in patches.
[DOCUMENTATION]
* More samples in the FAQ. Thanks to Joshua Gatcomb.
[INTERNALS]
* Added explanation of running live tests against Google in Makefile.PL.
1.08 Fri Dec 24 01:01:06 CST 2004
[ENHANCEMENTS]
* Added find_image() and find_all_images().
1.06 Wed Dec 8 14:58:39 CST 2004
[INTERNALS]
* Now uses the base pragma instead of setting @ISA.
1.05_04 Fri Nov 5 23:35:38 CST 2004
[ENHANCEMENTS]
* Added WWW::Mechanize::Image object for representing images.
* Improved the regex on the URL for META tags.
* Added --images flag to mech-dump.
[FIXES]
* When parsing urls out of meta refresh tags, "url" may now be
uppercase (RT#8230)
* Behavior of back() fixed in a number of cases (RT#8109 reported by
Josh Purinton, patched by Dominique Quatravaux)
[INTERNALS]
* Mark figured out to how to prevent his text editor from putting tabs
into the code. Andy's blood pressure dropped slightly.
1.05_03 Sun Oct 31 20:54:33 CST 2004
[ENHANCEMENTS]
* click_button() has a new input option for HTML::Form::SubmitInput
objects (DOMQ)
* content() has new options to return the page formatted
as text, with a <base href> added. (RT#8087, patch by
Dominique Quatravaux)
* update_html() method has been added, which can be used
to modify the HTML that Mech parses. It should be sub-classed
instead of _parse_html(), which has been deprecated.
(RT#8087, patch by Dominique Quatravaux)
* select() has new option to select an option by number
(RT#5789, Scott Lanning)
* WWW::Mechanize::Link now has support providing all the
attributes of the link through a new attrs() method, which
returns them as a hashref. This is a replacement for the
alt() method, added in 1.05_01. It's not backwards
compatible with that, but, hey, that's what developer
releases are for. (RT#8092, Rob Casey and Mark Stosberg)
[FIXES]
* Upload <input type="file" ... > does not use the default
value to prevent attacks, patch by Jan Pazdziora (RT #7843).
[INTERNALS]
* Improved tests and documentation for select() (RT#5789,
Scott Lanning)
* Improve taint-safeness on Perl 5.6.1 (RT#8042, patch by
Dominique Quatravaux)
* Added tests for click_button() (RT#8061, by Dominique
Quatravaux)
* Require URI 1.25, fixing bug which exposed itself in
WWW::Mechanize (RT#3048)
* Move select() to better location in docs. Document and
test the return values. The return value is now "1" on
success instead of the undocumented behavior of returning
a form value. (RT#6138, spotted by MJD, patched by Mark
Stosberg)
* Possible matching tags for the find_link() 'tag_regex'
attribute are now documented. (RT#2989, by Mark Stosberg)
* refactored find_link() to avoid use of eval(). This should
improve performance a bit and avoid potential security
issues. (Mark Stosberg)
1.05_02 Sat Oct 2 16:55:59 CDT 2004
[ENHANCEMENTS]
* Added the $mech->save_content( $filename ) function, so you
can dump stuff to files easily.
1.05_01 Thu Sep 30 21:04:44 CDT 2004
[FIXES]
* set_visible() doesn't stop setting values when it finds a zero.
[ENHANCEMENTS]
* WWW::Mechanize::Link has a new, easier to remember constructor
interface. The old one is still supported. Support for including
an 'alt' attribute was added, which is useful for <area> links.
(RT #3317). Thanks to Mark Stosberg.
* When links are extracted from <area> tags, the ALT attribute will
be captured and become part of the WWW::Mechanize::Link object.
(RT #3317). Patch by Mark Stosberg.
[INTERNALS]
* t/mech-dump.t is now more portable (RT #7690)
* t/local/follow.t has new tests to confirm that 'follow*' functions
work with characters like o-umlaut, even when the o-umlaut is
encoded in the HTML, but not in the call to follow(). (RT #2416)
By Mark Stosberg.
module directory has changed (eg. "darwin-2level" vs.
"darwin-thread-multi-2level").
binary packages of perl modules need to be distinguishable between
being built against threaded perl and unthreaded perl, so bump the
PKGREVISION of all perl module packages and introduce
BUILDLINK_RECOMMENDED for perl as perl>=5.8.5nb5 so the correct
dependencies are registered and the binary packages are distinct.
addresses PR pkg/28619 from H. Todd Fujinaka.
Changes since 1.02:
[ENHANCEMENTS]
* $mech->get() now accepts a WWW::Mechanize::Link object.
* $mech->stack_depth(n) lets you set the depth of the mech
object's page stack. This way, if you have a Mech that does
lots of stuff and never/rarely goes back(), you won't be eating
up memory. Thanks to BooK and Chi-Fung. (RT #5362)
[FIXES]
* Fixed tests that fail under LWP >= 5.800.
* Added a workaround for LWP::UserAgent->clone() when ->{proxy}
is undef. (RT #6443)
* The Referer was getting passed as a URI object sometimes,
and that caused sadness. Eugene Haimov supplied a workaround.
(RT #6372)
[DOCUMENTATION]
* Added Ian Langworth's listmod and John Beppu's photobucket
uploader programs to WWW::Mechanize::Examples.
* Minor doc tweak for find_link()
* Finally added a value() func. Thanks to Spoon,
who even now, months after his passing, is still contributing
to Mechanize.
"WWW::Mechanize", or Mech for short, helps you automate interaction
with a website. It supports performing a sequence of page fetches
including following links and submitting forms. Each fetched page
is parsed and its links and forms are extracted. A link or a form
can be selected, form fields can be filled and the next page can
be fetched. Mech also stores a history of the URLs you've visited,
which can be queried and revisited.
