2008-09-29   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

     Release 5.816

     Gisle Aas (2):

           Add missing binmode() [RT#39668]

           Doc tweaks

2008-09-24   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

     Release 5.815

     Gisle Aas (23):

           We don't need to build the docs to run the tests.

           Style tweaks.

           The jigsaw service isn't up to much good these days.

           HTTP::Cookies produces warnings for undefined cookie param names [RT#38480]

           Typo fix; HTTP::Message will never include x-bzip2 in Accept-Encoding [RT#38617]

           Added HTTP::Config module

           Add methods to configure processing handlers.

           100 Continue response not complete.

           Use 3-arg open when response content to files.

           Make the show_progress attribute official (by documenting it).

           Start using handlers for driving the inner logic of LWP::UserAgent.

           Expose the content_is_html and content_is_xhtml methods from HTTP::Headers.

           Make credentials method able to get/set values.

           An auth handler per realm.

           Match proxy setting for request.

           Set up separate handler for adding proxy authentication.

           Add request_preprepare to be able to initialize proxy early enough.

           Smarter get_my_handler() that can also create handlers.

           Refactor; introduce run_handlers method

           Pass in handler hash to the handler callback.

           Don't let version=1 override behaviour if specified with a plan Set-Cookie header.

           Remove handler when we don't have a username/password for the realm.

           Make tests use Test.pm

     Bron Gondwana (2):

           Double-check that username or password has changed after a failed login.

           Update Digest Authen to subclass Basic.

     Ondrej Hanak (1):

           Avoid running out of filehandles with DYNAMIC_FILE_UPLOAD.

     Todd Lipcon (1):

           Fixed parsing of header values starting with ':' [RT#39367]

     amire80 (1):

           Documentation typo fixes [RT#38203]

2008-07-25   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

     Release 5.814

     Gisle Aas (13):

           Typo fix.

           Add HTTP::Message::decodable()

           Use decoded_content in the synposis

           Avoid adding an empty first part in $mess->add_part()

           Get rid of all the manual dependency tests.

           Simplify the Makefile.PL (no interactivity)

           Provide DELETE method in HTTP::Request::Common [RT#37481]

           Checkbox picks up nearby text in description of alternates [RT#36771]

           HTML::Form::possible_values() should not returned disabled values [RT#35248]

           File::Listing documentation claimed only 'unix' format was supported [RT#22021]

           File::Listing only support English locales [RT#28879]

           Make common-req.t use Test.pm

           Typo; CAN_TALK_TO_OUTSELF

     Bill Mann (1):

           Fix up File::Listings fallback to dosftp [RT#23540]

     Hans-H. Froehlich (1):

           File::Listing parse failure on BSD Linux based systems [RT#26724]

2008-06-17   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

     Release 5.813

     Ville Skytta (3):

           RobotUA constructor ignores delay, use_sleep [RT#35456]

           Spelling fixes [RT#35457]

           Add HTTP::Response->filename [RT#35458]

     Mark Stosberg (2):

           Better diagnostics when the HTML::TokeParser constructor fails [RT#35607]

           Multiple forms with same-named <select> parse wrongly [RT#35607]

     Gisle Aas (1):

           Provide a progress method that does something that might be useful.

     Spiros Denaxas (1):

           Documentation typo fix [RT#36132]

2008-04-16   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

     Release 5.812

     Gisle Aas (6):

           Typo fix.

           Simplified Net::HTTP::Methods constructor call.

           Croak if Net::HTTP constructor called with no argument.

           Avoid calling $self->peerport to figure out what the port is.

           5.811 breaks SSL requests [RT#35090]

           Make test suite compatible with perl-5.6.1.

     Toru Yamaguchi (1):

           Wrong treatment of qop value in Digest Authentication [RT#35055]

2008-04-14   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

     Release 5.811

     Gisle Aas (6):

           Avoid "used only once" warning for $Config::Config.

           Make HTTP::Request::Common::PUT set Content-Length header [RT#34772]

           Added the add_content_utf8 method to HTTP::Message.

           Typo fix.

           Retry syscalls when they fail with EINTR or EAGAIN [RT#34093,32356]

           Allow HTTP::Content content that can be downgraded to bytes.

     Gavin Peters (1):

           HTML::Form does not recognise multiple select items with same name [RT#18993]

     Mark Stosberg (1):

           Document how HTTP::Status codes correspond to the classification functions [RT#20819]

     Robert Stone (1):

           Allow 100, 204, 304 responses to have content [RT#17907]

     sasao (1):

           HTTP::Request::Common::POST suppressed filename="0" in Content-Disposition [RT#18887]

2008-04-08   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

     Release 5.810

     Gisle Aas (10):

           Small documentation issues [RT#31346]

           Explain $netloc argument to $ua->credentials [RT#31969]

           Make lwp-request honour option -b while dumping links [RT#31347]

           Ignore params for date convenience methods [RT#30579]

           Get rid of all the old CVS $Keyword:...$ templates.  Set $VERSION to 5.810.

           Update Copyright year.

           Drop some sample URLs that were failing.

           Complement the HTTP::Status codes [RT#29619]

           Don't allow HTTP::Message content to be set to Unicode strings.

           Refactor test for Encode.pm

     Ville Skytta (3):

           Spelling fixes [RT#33272]

           Trigger HTML::HeadParser for XHTML [RT#33271]

           Escape status line in error_as_HTML, convert to lowercase [RT#33270]

     Alexey Tourbin (2):

           Typo fix [RT#33843]

           Protocol/file.pm: postpone load of URI::Escape and HTML::Entities [RT#33842]

     Daniel Hedlund (1):

           HTML::Form Module and <button> element clicks

     Adam Kennedy (1):

           HTTP::Cookies handle malformed empty Set-Cookie badly [RT#29401]

     Jacob J (1):

           [HTTP::Request::Common] Does not handle filenames containing " [RT#30538]

     Rolf Grossmann (1):

           Allow malformed chars in $mess->decoded_content [RT#17368]

     FWILES (1):

           Croak if LWP::UserAgent is constructed with hash ref as argument [RT#28597]

     Adam Sjogren (1):

           Disabled, checked radiobutton being submitted [RT#33512]

     DAVIDRW (1):

           warn if TextInput's maxlength exceeded [RT#32239]

2007-08-05   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

     Release 5.808

     Get rid of t/live/validator test.  Too much JavaScript madness

     for it to be a sane LWP test.

2007-07-31   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

     Release 5.807

     Apply patch correction from CPAN RT #26152

     More laxed t/live/validator test.

2007-07-19   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

     Release 5.806

     Added progress callback to LWP::UserAgent.

     HTTP::Daemon didn't avoid content in responses to HEAD requests

     Add support for HTTP Expect header to HTTP::Daemon (CPAN RT #27933)

     Fix t/base/message.t so tests are skipped if Encode is not

     installed.  (CPAN RT #25286)

     Add HTML::Tagset as a prerequisite to Makefile.PL

     Do not clobber $_ in LWP::Protocol::nntp (CPAN RT #25132)

     Fix lwp-download so it can download files with an "_" in the filename

         (CPAN RT#26207)

     Quiet complaints from HTML::HeadParser when dealing with undecoded

     UTF-8 data.  (CPAN RT#20274)

     When both IO::Socket::SSL and Net::SSL are loaded, use the latter

         (CPAN RT #26152)

     Allows SSL to work much more reliably:

         (CPAN RT #23372)

     Allow text/vnd.wap.wml and application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text

         in content-type field in lwp-request (CPAN RT #26151)

     Add default media type for XML in LWP::MediaTypes (CPAN RT #21093)

     Added chunked test by Andreas J. Koenig

2005-12-08   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

    Release 5.805

    HTTP::Date: The str2time function returned wrong values for

    years in the early 20th century, because timelocal() actually

    expects the year to be provided on a different scale than what

    localtime() returns.

    HTTP::Headers can now be constructed with field names that repeat.

    The $h->header function now also accept repeating field

    names and can also remove headers if passed undef as value.

    HTML::Form: The parse method now takes hash style optional

    arguments and the old verbose behaviour is now off by default.

    HTML::Form: Accept <select multiple=""> for compatibilty with

    other browsers.  Patch by Josh Rai <josh@rai.name>.

    HTML::Form: Sane handling of 'disabled' for ListInput.

    Based on patch by Joao Lopes <developer@st3tailor.com.br>.

    HTTP::Negotiate: Fixed matching of partial language tags.

    Patch contributed by Dan Kubb.

    HTTP::Response: The as_string method now returns a status line

    that doesn't add the "official" code name in the message

    field.  This improves the ability to round-trip response objects

    via HTTP::Response->parse($res->as_string) and makes the first

    line of the string returned agree with $res->status_line.

    Net::HTTP: The host attribute can now be set undef in

    order to suppress this header for HTTP/1.0 requests.

    Net::HTTP: The default Host: header does not include the

    port number if it is the default (80 for plain HTTP). Some

    servers get confused by this.

    Net::HTTP: Ignore bogus Content-Length headers. Don't get

    confused by leading or trailing whitespace.

    LWP::Protocol::http: More efficient sending of small PUT/POST

    requests by trying harder to pass off the whole request in a

    single call to syswrite.

    lwp-request now give better error messages if you used the 

    -o option without having the HTML-Tree distribution installed.

    Also document this dependency.

2005-12-06   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

    Release 5.804

    HTTP::Message->parse did not work when the first line of the body

    was something that looked like a header.

    HTTP::Header::Auth needs HTTP::Headers to be loaded before

    it replace its functions.

    LWP::Protocol::nntp improvements by Ville Skyttä 

     - Support the nntp: scheme.

     - Support hostname in news: and nntp: URIs.

     - Close connection and preserve headers also in non-OK responses.

     - HEAD support for URIs identifying a newsgroup.

     - Comment spelling fixes.

    Fix quotes in Net::HTTP example.

    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=283916

    Detect EOF when expecting a chunk header.  Should address the

    warnings shown in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=286775

    WWW::RobotRules: Improved parsing of not strictly valid robots.txt files

    contributed by <Matthew.van.Eerde@hbinc.com>.

    Makefile.PL: Set name to LWP so that the .packlist ends up in the

    expected place.

2004-12-11   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

    Release 5.803

    HTTP::Message: $mess->decoded_content sometimes had the side

    effect of destroying $mess->content.

    HTTP::Message: $mess->decoded_content failed for

    "Content-Encoding: deflate" if the content was not in the

    zlib-format as specified for the HTTP protocol.  Microsoft got

    this wrong, so we have to support raw deflate bytes as well.

    HTTP::Response->parse don't require the protocol to be

    specified any more.  This allows HTTP::Response->parse($resp->as_string)

    to round-trip.  Patch by Harald Joerg <haj@oook.m.uunet.de>.

    HTTP::Response: $resp->base might now return undef.  Previously

    it would croak if there was no associated request.  Based on

    patch by Harald Joerg <haj@oook.m.uunet.de>.

    HTML::Form now support <label> for check- and radio boxes.

    Patch contributed by Dan Kubb <dan.kubb@onautopilot.com>.

    Make HTTP::Daemon subclassable, patch by Kees Cook <kees@osdl.org>.

    lwp-download allow directory to save into to be specified.

    Patch by Radoslaw Zielinski <radek@karnet.pl>.

    lwp-download will validate filename derived from server

    controlled data and will fail if something looks not

    quite right.

2004-11-30   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

    Release 5.802

    The HTTP::Message object now have a decoded_content() method.

    This will return the content after any Content-Encodings and

    charsets has been decoded.

    Compress::Zlib is now a prerequisite module.

    HTTP::Request::Common: The POST() function created an invalid

    Content-Type header for file uploads with no parameters.

    Net::HTTP: Allow Transfer-Encoding with trailing whitespace.

    <http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=3929>

    Net::HTTP: Don't allow empty content to be treated as a valid

    HTTP/0.9 response.

    <http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=4581>

    <http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=6883>

    File::Protocol::file: Fixup directory links in HTML generated

    for directories.  Patch by Moshe Kaminsky <kaminsky@math.huji.ac.il>.

    Makefile.PL will try to discover misconfigured systems that

    can't talk to themselves and disable tests that depend on this.

    Makefile.PL will now default to 'n' when asking about whether

    to install the "GET", "HEAD", "POST" programs.  There has been

    too many name clashes with these common names.

2004-11-12   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

    Release 5.801

    HTTP::Message improved content/content_ref interaction.  Fixes

    DYNAMIC_FILE_UPLOAD and other uses of code content in requests.

    HTML::Form:

      - Handle clicking on nameless image.

      - Don't let $form->click invoke a disabled submit button.

    HTTP::Cookies could not handle a "old-style" cookie named

    "Expires".

    HTTP::Headers work-around for thread safety issue in perl <= 5.8.4.

    HTTP::Request::Common improved documentation.

    LWP::Protocol: Check that we can write to the file specified in

    $ua->request(..., $file) or $ua->mirror.

    LWP::UserAgent clone() dies if proxy was not set.  Patch by

    Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>

    HTTP::Methods now avoid "use of uninitialized"-warning when server

    replies with incomplete status line.

    lwp-download will now actually tell you why it aborts if it runs

    out of disk space of fails to write some other way.

    WWW::RobotRules: only display warning when running under 'perl -w'

    and show which robots.txt file they correspond to.  Based on

    patch by Bill Moseley.

    WWW::RobotRules: Don't empty cache when agent() is called if the

    agent name does not change.  Patch by Ville Skyttä 

2004-06-16   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

    Release 5.800

    HTML::Form will allow individual menu entries to be disabled.

    This was needed to support <input type=radio disabled value=foo>

    and <select><option disabled>foo.

    HTML::Form now avoids name clashes between the <select> and

    <option> attributes.

    HTML::Form now implicitly close <select> elements when it sees

    another input or </form>.  This is closer to the MSIE behaviour.

    HTML::Form will now "support" keygen-inputs.  It will not

    calculate a key by itself.  The user will have to set its

    value for it to be returned by the form.

    HTTP::Headers now special case field names that start with a

    ':'.   This is used as an escape mechanism when you need the

    header names to not go through canonicalization.  It means

    that you can force LWP to use a specific casing and even

    underscores in header names.  The ugly $TRANSLATE_UNDERSCORE

    global has been undocumented as a result of this.

    HTTP::Message will now allow an external 'content_ref'

    to be set.  This can for instance be used to let HTTP::Request

    objects pick up content data from some scalar variable without

    having to copy it.

    HTTP::Request::Common.  The individual parts will no longer

    have a Content-Length header for file uploads.  This improves

    compatibility with "normal" browsers.

    LWP::Simple doc patch for getprint.

    Contributed by Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna@efn.org>.

    LWP::UserAgent: New methods default_header() and

    default_headers().  These can be used to set up headers that

    are automatically added to requests as they are sent.  This

    can for instance be used to initialize various Accept headers.

    Various typo fixes by Ville Skyttä 

    Fixed test failure under perl-5.005.

    LWP::Protocol::loopback:  This is a new protocol handler that

    works like the HTTP TRACE method, it will return the request

    provided to it.  This is sometimes useful for testing.  It can

    for instance be invoked by setting the 'http_proxy' environment

    variable to 'loopback:'.

2004-04-13   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

    Release 5.79

    HTML::Form now exposes the 'readonly' and 'disabled'

    attribute for inputs.  This allows your program to simulate

    JavaScript code that modifies these attributes.

    RFC 2616 says that http: referer should not be sent with

    https: requests.  The lwp-rget program, the $req->referer method

    and the redirect handling code now try to enforce this.

    Patch by Ville Skyttä 

    WWW::RobotRules now look for the string found in

    robots.txt as a case insensitive substring from its own

    User-Agent string, not the other way around.

    Patch by Ville Skyttä 

    HTTP::Headers: New method 'header_field_names' that

    return a list of names as suggested by its name.

    HTTP::Headers: $h->remove_content_headers will now

    also remove the headers "Allow", "Expires" and

    "Last-Modified".  These are also part of the set

    that RFC 2616 denote as Entity Header Fields.

    HTTP::Headers: $h->content_type is now more careful

    in removing embedded space in the returned value.

    It also now returns all the parameters as the second

    return value as documented.

    HTTP::Headers: $h->header() now croaks.  It used to

    silently do nothing.

    HTTP::Headers: Documentation tweaks.  Documented a

    few bugs discovered during testing.

    Typo fixes to the documentation all over the place

    by Ville Skyttä 

    Updated tests.

2004-04-07   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

    Release 5.78

    Removed stray Data::Dump reference from test suite.

    Added the parse(), clear(), parts() and add_part() methods to

    HTTP::Message.  The HTTP::MessageParts module of 5.77 is no more.

    Added clear() and remove_content_headers() methods to

    HTTP::Headers.

    The as_string() method of HTTP::Message now appends a newline

    if called without arguments and the non-empty content does

    not end with a newline.  This ensures better compatibility with

    5.76 and older versions of libwww-perl.

    Use case insensitive lookup of hostname in $ua->credentials.

    Patch by Andrew Pimlott <andrew@pimlott.net>.

2004-04-06   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

    Release 5.77

    LWP::Simple did not handle redirects properly when the "Location"

    header used uncommon letter casing.

    Patch by Ward Vandewege <ward@pong.be>.

    LWP::UserAgent passed the wrong request to redirect_ok().

    Patch by Ville Skyttä 

    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 <andy@petdance.com>.

    LWP::RobotUA did not parse robots.txt files that contained

    "Disallow:" using uncommon letter casing.

    Patch by Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>.

    WWW::RobotRules now allow leading space when parsing robots.txt

    file as suggested by Craig Macdonald <craig@freeasphost.co.uk>.

    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 <liam@htmlhelp.com>.

    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

    <Michel.Koppelaar@kb.nl>.

    Experimental support for composite messages, currently

    implemented by the HTTP::MessageParts module.  Based on

    ideas from Joshua Hoblitt <jhoblitt@ifa.hawaii.edu>.

    Fixed libscan in Makefile.PL.

    Patch by Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>.

    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.

2003-11-21   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

    Release 5.76

    Revised handling of redirects.

       - clear our content and content headers if we

         rewrite request as GET based on patch by

         Steven Butler <stevenb@kjross.com.au>.

       - pass $response to redirect_ok()

    Support cpan:-URLs.  Try 'lwp-download cpan:src/latest.tar.gz' :)

    Fix test failure in 't/html/form.t' for perl5.005.

2003-10-26   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

    Release 5.75

    Reworked LWP::UserAgent, HTTP::Request and HTTP::Response

    documentation.  Also other documentation tweaks.

2003-10-23   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

    Release 5.74

    Improved lwp-download program:

      - set mtime if Last-Modified header reported by server

      - better prompts

      - avoid warnings when aborted at the wrong time

    Collected all contributions in the AUTHORS file and

    also added an AUTHORS section to the LWP manpage.

    Style tweaks to all modules.  Move POD after __END__

    and uncuddled elses.

2003-10-19   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

    Release 5.73

    Takanori Ugai <ugai@jp.fujitsu.com> found that 'max_redirect'

    introduced in 5.72 was broken and provided a patch for that.

    Not all ftp servers return 550 responses when trying to

    to RETR a directory.  Microsofts IIS is one of those.

    Patch provided by Thomas Lotterer <thl@dev.de.cw.com>.

    Some documentation tweaks.

2003-10-15   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

    Release 5.72

    Requests for some non-HTTP URLs would fail if the cookie_jar

    was enabled.  The HTTP::Cookies::add_cookie_header now ignore

    non-HTTP requests.

    The new local/http test failed on Windows because of a missing

    binmode().

    Suppress Client-SSL-Warning warning header when Crypt::SSLeay

    is able to verify the peer certificate.   Patch contributed by

    Joshua Chamas <joshua@chamas.com>.

    HTTP::Request::Common::POST did not add a 'Content-Length' header

    when the content ended up empty.  Fixed by a patch contributed

    by Brian J. Murrell.

    Internally generated responses now contain a text/plain part

    that repeats the status line.  They also have a "Client-Warning"

    header that can be used to differentiate these responses from

    real server responses.

    LWP::UserAgent now deals with 303 and 307 redirects.  The behaviour

    of 302 redirects has also changed to be like 303; i.e. change the

    method to be "GET".  This is what most browsers do.  Based on

    a patch contributed by Tom Hughes <thh@cyberscience.com>.

    LWP::UserAgent now implements a 'max_redirect' attribute with a

    default value of 7.  This should also fix the problem where

    redirects to the same URL to get a cookie set did not work.

    Based on a patch by Sean M. Burke <sburke@cpan.org>.

    NTML authentication should continue to fail if the Authen::NTLM

    module can't be loaded.  LWP used to think the scheme was

    available as soon as the module stash showed up.  Not it looks

    for the authenticate method to be defined.  Patch by Jan Dubois.

    lwp-download will not try to rename *.tbz and *.tar.bz2 to

    match the reported content type.  Patch contributed by

    Robin Barker <Robin.Barker@npl.co.uk>.

    HTTP::Cookies::Netscape documentation fix by Sean M. Burke.

    HTTP::Cookies::Microsoft documentation fix by Johnny Lee.

    The code that tries to avoid installing 'HEAD' on top of

    'head' on systems like Mac OS was further improved to look

    in $Config{installscript} instead of $Config{sitebin}.

    Patch provided by Ken Williams <ken@mathforum.org>.

2003-10-14   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

    Release 5.71

    Support open-ended Range: header for ftp requests.

    Patch by Matthew Eldridge <eldridge@Graphics.Stanford.EDU>.

    lwp-request now prints unsuccessful responses in the same way

    as successsful ones.  The status will still indicate failures.

    Based on a patch by Steve Hay <steve.hay@uk.radan.com>.

    HTML::Form's dump now also print alternative value names.

    HTML::Form will now pick up the phrase after a <input type=radio>

    or <input type=checkbox> and use that as the name of the checked

    value.

    HTML::Form's find_input now returns all inputs that match in

    array context.  Based on patch by Mark Stosberg <markstos@cpan.org>

    in <http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=3320>.

    HTTP::Daemon's send_file() method did not work when given

    a file name.  Patch by Dave W. Smith <dws@postcognitive.com>.

    HTTP::Daemon is less strict about field names in the request

    headers is received.  The Norton Internet Security firewall

    apparently likes to send requests with a header called

    '~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~'.   Further details in

    <http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2531>.

    LWP::Protocol::http assumed $1 would be meaningful without

    testing the outcome of the match.  This sometimes produced

    an extra garbage Authentication header.

    Based on the patch by <bai@dreamarts.co.jp> in

    <http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=1994>.

    LWP::Protocol::mailto will try harder to locate the sendmail

    program as suggested in <http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2363>.

    Also let $ENV{SENDMAIL} override the search.

    Patch to enable OS/2 build by Ilya Zakharevich.

2003-10-13   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

    Release 5.70

    File::Listing::apache by Slaven Rezic <slaven@rezic.de>

    HEAD requests now work properly for ftp: URLs.

    Patch by Ville Skyttä 

    LWP::UserAgent: The protocols_allowed() and protocols_forbidden()

    methods are now case insensitive.  Patch by Ville Skyttä

    <ville.skytta@iki.fi>.

    Avoid warning from HTTP::Date on certain invalid dates.

    Patch by David Dick <david_dick@iprimus.com.au>.

    HTML::Form::param() is an alternative interface for inspecting

    and modifying the form values.  It resembles the interface

    of CGI.

    HTML::Form documentation updated.  Lots of typo fixes and improves

    by Martin Thurn <mthurn@northropgrumman.com>.

    HTML::Form will treat any unknown input types as text input.

    This appears to be what most browsers do.

    HTML::Form::parse() can now take a HTTP::Response object

    as argument.

    The "checkbox" and "option" inputs of HTML::Form can now be

    turned on with the new check() method.

    The inputs of HTML::Form can now track alternative value

    names and allow values to be set by these names as well.

    Currently this is only supported for "option" inputs.

    HTML::Form's dump() method now print the name of the form if

    present.

2003-01-24   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

    Release 5.69

    Include lwptut.pod contributed by Sean M. Burke C<sburke@cpan.org>.

    The lwp-request aliases GET, HEAD, POST where installed when

    no program should be.  Fixed by David Miller <dave@justdave.net>.

    lwp-rget --help don't print double usage any more.

    HTTP::Header::Util is now more reluctant to put quotes around

    token values.

    Net::HTTP: Avoid warning on unexpected EOF when reading chunk

    header.

2003-01-02   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

    Release 5.68

    Fix test failure for t/html/form.t when running under

    perl-5.8.0.

2003-01-01   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

    Release 5.67

    HTTP::Cookies::Microsoft contributed by Johnny Lee <typo_pl@hotmail.com>.

    This module makes it possible for LWP to share MSIE's cookies.

    HTML::Form supports file upload better now.  There are some

    new methods on that kind of input; file(), filename(), content()

    and headers().

    Removed unfinished test that depended on Data::Dump.

    Net::HTTP avoids exceptions in read_response_headers() with

    laxed option.  It now always assumes HTTP/0.9 on unexpected

    responses.

    HTML::Form documentation reworked.

2002-12-20   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

    Release 5.66

    Various patches from Sean M. Burke.  Most of them to

    match up LWP with the "Perl & LWP" book.

    LWP::DebugFile module contributed by Sean.

    LWP::Authen::Ntml contributed by James Tillman.

    HTTP::Daemon patch for Alpha by <shildreth@emsphone.com>

    The format_chunk() and write_chunk() methods of Net::HTTP

    did not work.  Bug spotted by Yale Huang <yale@sdf-eu.org>.

    The Client-Peer response header is back.

2002-05-31   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

    Release 5.65

    Make HTTP::Date compatible with perl 5.8.

    Try to avoid to default to overwriting /usr/bin/head 

    on MacOS X when the perl install prefix is /usr/bin.

    HTTP::Cookies fix for parsing of Netscape cookies file

    on MS Windows. Patch by by Sean M. Burke <sburke@cpan.org>.

    HTTP::Negotiate doc patch from Edward Avis <epa98@doc.ic.ac.uk>.

2002-02-09   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

    Release 5.64

    Simplified the Makefile.PL:

       - the scripts are not longer *.PL files

       - don't try to make symlinks for GET, HEAD, POST

         as that has not worked for a long time

       - the GET, HEAD, POST aliases for lwp-request should

         now work on Windows.

    HTTP::Cookies:

       - added 'clear_temporary_cookies' method;

         patch by Mike Schilli <schilli1@pacbell.net>.

       - trailing space in old cookie parameters not ignored;

         patch by Ivan Panchenko

       - protect against $SIG{__DIE__} handlers;

	 patch by Adam Newby <adam@NewsNow.co.uk>.

    LWP::Authen::Digest:

       - abort digest auth session if we fail repeatedly with

         the same username/password.

    MacOS portability patches to the test suite by

    Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>.

2001-12-14   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

    Release 5.63

    HTTP::Negotiate: Deal with parameter names in a case

    insensitive way.  Put a little weight on the order of features

    in the Accept headers.

    LWP::UserAgent: make sure that the 'request' attribute is

    always set on the returned response.

    LWP::Protocol::http will now allow certain bad headers

    in the responses it reads.  The bad headers end up in the

    header 'Client-Junk'.

    Net::HTTP new options to the 'read_response_headers'

    method.  The option 'laxed' will make it ignore bad header

    lines.  The option 'junk_out' can be used to pass in an

    array reference.  Junk header lines are pushed onto it.

    Net::HTTP::Methods: fixed the internal zlib_ok() to also

    return the correct value the first time.

    LWP::Protocol::http: Ensure that we don't read until

    select has said it is ok since we have put the socket

    in non-blocking mode.  Previously this could happen if

    you set the 'timeout' attribute of the user agent to 0.

    LWP::Authen::Digest now use Digest::MD5 instead of MD5.

    Some adjustments to Makefile.PL to figure out if

    Compress::Zlib is available and adjust the test suite

    accordingly.

2001-11-21   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

    Release 5.62

    The $VERSION of LWP::UserAgent wrapped around.  This confused the

    CPAN indexer.  Bumped the major number to 2 to fix this.

    Net::HTTP did not work well on perl5.003.  The PeerHost argument

    to IO::Socket::INET was not recognized, so we had to use PeerAddr

    instead.  The syswrite() method also required a length argument.

    Net::HTTP did not deal with transfer encoding tokens in a

    case-insensitive way.  Patch by Blair Zajac <blair@orcaware.com>.

    The jigsaw-chunk test failed on MacOS because "\n" is different.

    Patch by Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>.

2001-11-16   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

    Release 5.61

    LWP::Protocol::http did not invoke its _fixup_header method.

    The result was that the 'Host' header got completely wrong

    when talking through a proxy server.

    The live Google test is gone.  They blocked us.

    The guts of Net::HTTP has moved to Net::HTTP::Methods.

    Net::HTTP now has limits on the size of the header which are

    set by default.

    New module Net::HTTPS.

    Documentation tweaks.

    HTTP::Headers: The 'remove_header' method now return the values

    of the fields removed as suggested by Blair Zajac <blair@orcaware.com>.

    Also a typo fix by Blair.

    HTTP::Message: The delegation via &AUTOLOAD should be slightly

    faster now.  It will install a real forwarding function the

    first time it is called for each HTTP::Headers method.

    LWP::UserAgent: Don't forward 'Cookie' headers on redirect.

    Patch by Steve A Fink <steve@fink.com>.

    LWP::Protocol::http has been reorganized to make it simpler

    to subclass it. Other minor changes to it include:

       - Client-Warning is gone

       - Client-Request-Num renamed to Client-Response-Num

       - A 'Transfer-Encoding' header is rewritten into a

         'Client-Transfer-Encoding' header.

    LWP::Protocol::https is completely redone.

2001-10-26   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

    Release 5.60

    Made HTTP/1.1 the default.  The old HTTP/1.0 module has been

    renamed as LWP::Protocol::http10.  There is an environment

    variable; PERL_LWP_USE_HTTP_10 that can be set to have LWP

    still pick up the old drivers.

    Deal with "100 continue" responses even when not requested by

    and Expect header in the request.  MS IIS seems to eager to send

    this kind of response.

    For HTTP/1.1 over SSL there was a problem with the underlying

    SSL libraries if the socket was configured to non-blocking mode.

    Disable this for https.

    Based on a patch from Michael Thompson <mickey@berkeley.innomedia.com>

    Support the Range header for ftp:// requests.

    Patch by David Coppit <david@coppit.org>.

    Rearrange Bundle::LWP on request from Chris Nandor.

    HTTP::Cookies: Allow a domain like .foo.com match host "foo.com".

    Patch by Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@lrde.epita.fr>

    For redirects make sure Host header is not copied to the new

    request.

    The HTML::HeadParser is not loaded until actually needed.

    Net::HTTP should now work with perl5.005 by a simple tweak

    to 'require IO::Socket::INET'.

    WWW::RobotRules::AnyDBM: Explicitly clear database on open.

    Some DBM implementations doesn't support the O_TRUNC flag

    properly.  Patch by Radu Greab <radu@netsoft.ro>.

2001-09-19   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

    Release 5.53_97

    LWP::Protocol::http11: fix socket leak.  Because we managed

    to set up a circular reference within the sockets objects they

    stayed around forever.

    LWP::UserAgent: Split up simple_request into prepare_request

    and send_request. Patch contributed by Keiichiro Nagano <knagano@sodan.org>

    LWP::Protocol::http: Pass all header data to LWP::Debug::conns.

    Based on patch by Martijn.

    LWP::UserAgent: Sean fixed a Cut&Paste error.

    HTTP::Cookies: avoid pack("c",...) warning from bleadperl.

2001-08-27   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

    Release 5.53_96

    HTTP/1.1 support also for https.

    Contributed by Doug MacEachern <dougm@covalent.net>

    The HTTP/1.1 modules are now enabled by default.  Hope that will give

    them more testing than they otherwise would have gotten.

    HTTP::Daemon's accept now has same behaviour as IO::Socket's

    accept in list context.  Fixed by Blair Zajac <blair@gps.caltech.edu>.

    More argument sanity checking in HTTP::Request->uri and

    LWP::UserAgent->simple_request.  Patch by Sean M. Burke.

    HTTP::Protocol::http.  Deal with short writes.

    Patch by Norton Allen <allen@huarp.harvard.edu>

    HTTP::Protocol::http11:  Deal with newlines in header values.

    Net::HTTP: call sysread (instead of xread) when more data is required.

2001-08-06   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

    Release 5.53_95

    Fix HTTP::Cookies where there is a mix of Set-Cookie and

    Set-Cookie2 headers.  In that case we used to ignore all Set-Cookie

    headers.  Now we only ignore those Set-Cookie headers that reference

    the same cookie as a Set-Cookie2 header.

    HTTP::Request, HTTP::Response will by default now use "URI" class,

    instead of "URI::URL", when constructing its URI objects.  This

    has a potential for breaking existing code as URI::URL objects had

    some extra methods that external code might depend upon.

    Patches by Sean M. Burke:

       - Fix treatment of language tags in HTTP::Negotiate 

       - Avoid trailing newline in $response->message

       - HTTP::Response clarifications

    LWP::Simple deals with non-absolute redirects "correctly" now.

    Net::HTTP does not try to load Compress::Zlib until it is needed.

    Net::HTTP documentation has been updated.

2001-05-05   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

    Release 5.53_94

    Sean M. Burke's update to LWP::UserAgent:

       - updated redirect_ok behaviour

       - new convenience methods: get/head/post/put

       - protocols_allowed/protocols_forbidden

       - LWP::Protocol::nogo (new module)

    Added digest auth test against Jigsaw

    Fixed a 'use of uninitialized'-warning in the handling of

    digest authentication.

    Net::HTTP updates:

      - new option: SendTE

      - support transfer-encoding 'deflate' and 'gzip' (when Compress::Zlib

        is available).

      - new methods: format_chunk, format_chunk_eof

      - use -1 (instead of "0E0" as signal that no data was available,

        but this was not EOF).

2001-04-28   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

    Release 5.53_93

    Makefile.PL now asks some questions

    Added live tests for the new HTTP/1.1 support

    LWP::MemberMixin: make it possible to set a value to the 'undef' value.

    Net::HTTP:

        - transparent support for 'deflate' and 'gzip' transfer encodings

          (need to have the Compress::Zlib module installed for this to work).

2001-04-25   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

    Release 5.53_92

    LWP::Protocol::ftp now support keep-alives too.  The command

    connection will stay open if keep-alives are enabled.

    LWP::Protocol::http11 various fixes:

        - chunked request content did not work

        - monitor connection while sending request content

        - deal with Expect: 100-continue

    LWP::RobotUA: Protect host_port call.  Not all URIs have this method.

2001-04-20   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

    Release 5.53_91

    Introduced LWP::ConnCache module.  Works similar to HTTP::Cookies,

    it that it takes effect if associated with the $ua.

    The handling of $ua->max_size changed to make 0 mean 0

    (not unlimited).  An value of undef means no limit.

    The X-Content-Base header is gone.  I hope nobody relies on

    it.  It might come back if people start to scream.  There

    is a new Client-Aborted header instead.

    The Range header generated for $ua->max_size had a off-by-one

    error.  A range of "0-1" means 2 bytes.

    The LWP::UserAgent constructor now takes configuration arguments.

    Keep-alive and the new HTTP/1.1 module can now be simply

    enabled with something like:

          LWP::UserAgent->new(keep_alive => 1);

    New method $ua->conn_cache to set up and access the associated

    connection manager.

    If the string passed to $ua->agent() ends with space then

    the "libwww-perl/#.##" string is automatically appended.

    New method $ua->_agent

    Passing a plain hash to $ua->cookie_jar automatically loads

    HTTP::Cookies and initialise an object using the hash content

    as constructor arguments.

    LWP::Protocol::http11 now use the conn_cache of the $ua.

    LWP::Protocol::http11 now added a few new Client- headers.

    LWP::Protocol avoid keeping the connection alive if $ua->max_size

    limit prevents the whole body content from being read.

    Net::HTTP updates:

       - new methods: write_chunk(), write_chunk_eof()

       - reset state properly when a new body is read.

       - always set read buffer empty on eof

       - doc update

    WWW::RobotRules patch by Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>:

       - Always qualify netloc with port.

       - Reverse User-Agent substring matching.

2001-04-18   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

    Release 5.53_90

    Note: This is a developer only release.  Not for production use.

    LWP::Protocol::http11 now does keep-alives by default.  Still need

    to figure out what interface to provide at the $ua level.

    LWP::Protocol::http11 deals with CODE content in request.

    Net::HTTP updated:

        - added format_request() method

        - added _rbuf and _rbuf_length methods

        - read_response_headers does not return protocol version

	  any more.

        - peer_http_version method did not work because of typo.

        - documentation added

    New module Net::HTTP::NB.  This is a Net::HTTP subclass that

    is better suited for multiplexing as it is able to do no-blocking

    reads of headers and entity body chunks.

    HTTP::Request: Protect $request->uri against evil $SIG{__DIE__} handlers.

    Some reorganisation in how stuff is passed from $ua to protocol object.

    The $ua is now passed in so protocol objects might store start in it.

    The $ua->max_size default is now 0.

    The $ua->clone method avoids sharing of proxy settings between

    the old and the new.

    This file is renamed to 'Changes' (used to be 'ChangeLog').

2001-04-10   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

    Release 5.53

    LWP::Simple::get() could sometimes return nothing on failure in

    list context.  Now it always returns 'undef'.

    HTTP::Cookies does not request 2 dots on domain names any more.

    New option to hide the Cookie2 header.  Cookie2 header now quote

    the version number. Updated reference to RFC 2965.

    Support for embedded userinfo in http proxy URIs.  It means that

    you know can set up your proxy with things like:

        http_proxy="http://proxyuser:proxypass@proxyhost:port"

    Patch by John Klar <j.klar@xpedite.com>.

    Experimental HTTP/1.1 support.  New module called Net::HTTP that

    provide the lower level interface and a LWP::Protocol::http11

    module that builds on it.  The HTTP/1.1 protocol module must be

    loaded and registered explicitly, otherwise the old and trustworthy

    HTTP/1.0 module will be used.

    LWP::Protocol::GHTTP will try to use the get_headers() methods

    so that it can actually extract all the headers.

2001-03-29   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

    Release 5.52

    HTTP::Header: new method $h->init_header() that will only

    set the header if it is not already set.  Some shuffling

    around in the code.

    LWP::UserAgent will not override 'User-Agent', 'From'

    or 'Range' headers if they are explicitly set in the

    request passed in.

    HTML::Form tries to optimize parsing be restricting the

    tags that are reported by HTML::Parser.  Will need

    HTML::Parser v3.19_93 or better for this to actually

    have any effect.

    LWP::Protocol::ftp now deals with path parameters again.

    It means that you can append ";type=a" to ftp-URI and

    it will download the document in ASCII mode.

    If the server output multiple Location headers on a redirect,

    ignore all but the first one.

    Extract cookies failed on request URIs with empty paths.

    This was only triggered if you used URI objects directly in

    scripts.

    This change was actually part of 5.51:  Fix qop="auth"

    handling for Digest authentication.

    Patch by Dave Dunkin <dave_dunkin@hotmail.com>.

2001-03-14   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

    Release 5.51

    SECURITY FIX: If LWP::UserAgent::env_proxy is called in a CGI

    environment, the case-insensitivity when looking for "http_proxy"

    permits "HTTP_PROXY" to be found, but this can be trivially set by the

    web client using the "Proxy:" header.  The fix applied is that

    $ENV{HTTP_PROXY} is not longer honored for CGI scripts.

    The CGI_HTTP_PROXY environment variable can be used instead.

    Problem reported by Randal L. Schwartz.

    NOTE: It is recommended that everybody that use LWP::UserAgent

          (including LWP::Simple) in CGI scripts upgrade to this release.

    Explicit setting of action on HTML::Form had no effect because

    of a code typo.  Patch by BooK <book@netcourrier.com>.

    HTTP::Daemon: The CONNECT method need special treatment because

    it does not provide a URI as argument (just a "hostname:port").

    The non-upward compatibility warning is that you must now call

    $request->url->host_port to get the host/port string for CONNECT,

    rather than calling $request->url and using the entire string.

    Based on patch from Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>

    HTTP::Daemon: Create self URL based on $self->sockaddr.  This works

    better when LocalAddr is used to specify the port number.  Based on

    patch from Ben Low <ben@snrc.uow.edu.au>. 

    Avoid potential '<FILE> chunk 1' messages at the end of the response

    'message'.

2001-01-12   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

    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.

2000-04-09   Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>

    Release 5.48

    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 

    $request->uri($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

   Clean test on VMS.

   Patch by Charles Lane <lane@ DUPHY4.Physics.Drexel.Edu>.

1999-11-16   Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>

 o  Release 5.47

 o  Added HTML::Form to the distribution.

 o  LWP::Protocol::ftp: Make it URI.pm compatible.  We broke it in 5.45.

 o  LWP::Protocol::http: Kill any Connection header

 o  LWP::MediaTypes: Fixed builtin html/text mapping.

    Added bz2 to suffixEncoding

1999-10-28   Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>

 o  Release 5.46

 o  Updated mailing list address

 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>

1999-09-20   Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>

 o  Release 5.45

 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  lwp-mirror -t option did not work.

 o  defined(@ISA) eliminated. Patch by Nathan Torkington <gnat@frii.com>

 o  LWP::Protocol::ftp: Protect against empty path_segments

1999-06-25   Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>

 o  Release 5.44

 o  We require URI-1.03, since this fix some query quoting stuff

    that HTTP::Request::Common rely upon.

 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.

1999-05-09   Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>

 o  Release 5.43

 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  Y2K fix to t/base/cookies.t.  Netscape's original cookie

    example expires at 09-Nov-99.

 o  Added another binmode() to LWP::Protocol::file as suggested

    by Matt Sergeant <matt-news@sergeant.org>

1999-03-20   Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>

 o  Release 5.42

 o  MacOS patches from Paul J. Schinder <schinder@leprss.gsfc.nasa.gov>

 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  "LWP fails with PerlEXE"-patch from Gurusamy Sarathy

 o  Allow "." in HTTP header names.  Patch by Marc Langheinrich

    <marc@ccm.cl.nec.co.jp>