Package: libwww5.808-perl (5.808-4)

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Experimental package

Warning: This package is from the experimental distribution. That means it is likely unstable or buggy, and it may even cause data loss. Please be sure to consult the changelog and other possible documentation before using it.

The World-Wide Web library for Perl

The libwww-perl collection is a set of Perl modules which provides a simple and consistent application programming interface (API) 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.

Most modules in this library provide an object oriented API. The user agent, requests sent and responses received from the WWW server are all represented by objects. This makes a simple and powerful interface to these services. The interface is easy to extend and customize for your own needs.

This legacy version of the Perl module is made available to experimental to help with a very small compatibility issue regarding the 'parse_head' method that newer versions of libwww-perl no longer have. The method is also unlikely to come back because of a different overall design of the module. Any Perl program depending on this version of the libwww-perl module should be updated since many other tools today depend on the conflicting newer version of libwww-perl.

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