Changes since 5.48:
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.
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
Added HTML::Form to the distribution.
LWP::Protocol::http: Kill any Connection header
LWP::MediaTypes: Fixed builtin html/text mapping.
Added bz2 to suffixEncoding
Changes are:
o Y2K fix to t/base/cookies.t. Netscape's original cookie
example expires at 09-Nov-99.
o Unbundled URI::URL modules. You now have to install the
URI.pm module in order to get libwww-perl working.
o Avoid warnings for lwp-request -t
o referrer as alternative spelling for referer as suggested by tchrist.
o More conservative selection of boundary for multipart messages
in &HTTP::Request::Common::POST.
o LWP::MediaTypes can now export &read_media_types.
o Spelling corrections from Ben Tilly <Ben_Tilly@trepp.com>
o The LWP SSL support better explained. Documentation in README.SSL
and lwpcook.pod contributed by Marko Asplund <aspa@hip.fi>.
o LWP::Protocol::https: Try loading IO::Socket::SSL if Net::SSL is
not available.
o defined(@ISA) eliminated. Patch by Nathan Torkington <gnat@frii.com>
o LWP::Protocol::ftp: Protect against empty path_segments
o 'lwp-request -HUser-Agent:foo' can now be used to set this
header too.
o Localize $/ to ensure standard record separator a few places
in HTTP::Cookies
o LWP::UserAgent will now set the Range header in requests if
the $ua->max_size attribute is set.
o New lwp-request command line option that allow you to put any
header into the request (-H).
o 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).
o Added another binmode() to LWP::Protocol::file as suggested
by Matt Sergeant <matt-news@sergeant.org>
o Documentation patch from Michael A. Chase <mchase@ix.netcom.com>
o PREREQ_PM patch from Andreas Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
o LWP::Simple::head fix by Richard Chen <richard@lexitech.com>
o Allow "." in HTTP header names. Patch by Marc Langheinrich
<marc@ccm.cl.nec.co.jp>
o Fixed reference to $uri->netloc in lwp-request
o Cute animation in lwp-download
o 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>.
o HTTP::Cookies now ignore the Expires field in Set-Cookie, if the
date provided can't be parsed by HTTP::Date.
o 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.
o LWP::Protocol::gopher: IO::Socket::INET ctor did not specify
Proto => 'tcp'. This made it less portable to older IO::Socket
versions.
o No programs installed when you build the Makefile with
'perl Makefile.PL LIB=/my/lib'
o LWP bundle mention Digest::MD5 instead of MD5
o headers-auth.t test suite bug triggered by perl5.005_5x.
Patch by Albert Dvornik <bert@genscan.com>
o The local/http.t test actually did try to unlink("."). This was
very confusing on systems where it succeed.
o Made library URI.pm compatible. Made all URI object instantiations
based on $HTTP::URI_CLASS variable.
o New lwp-rget option: --referer.
Patch by INOUE Yoshinari <inoue@kusm.kyoto-u.ac.jp>.
o One more binmode() to HTTP::Daemon as suggested by
Markus Laker <mlaker@contax.co.uk>.
