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The libwww-perl collection is a set of Perl modules which provides a

simple and consistent application programming interface 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.

PREREQUISITES

In order to install and use this package you will need Perl version

5.6 or better.  Some modules within this package depend on other

packages that are distributed separately from Perl.  We recommend that

you have the following packages installed before you install

libwww-perl:

  URI

  MIME-Base64

  HTML-Tagset

  HTML-Parser

  libnet

  Digest-MD5

  Compress-Zlib

If you want to access sites using the https protocol, then you need to

install the Crypt::SSLeay or the IO::Socket::SSL module.  The

README.SSL file will tell you more about how libwww-perl supports SSL.

INSTALLATION

You install libwww-perl using the normal perl module distribution drill:

   perl Makefile.PL

   make

   make test

   make install

If you don't want to install any programs (only the library files) then

pass the '--no-programs' option to Makefile.PL:

   perl Makefile.PL --no-programs

DOCUMENTATION

See the lib/LWP.pm file for an overview of the library. See the

Changes file for recent changes.

POD style documentation is included in all modules and scripts.  These

are normally converted to manual pages and installed as part of the

"make install" process.  You should also be able to use the 'perldoc'

utility to extract and read documentation from the module files

directly.

SUPPORT

Bug reports and suggestions for improvements can be sent to the

<libwww@perl.org> mailing list.  This mailing list is also the place

for general discussions and development of the libwww-perl package.

AVAILABILITY

The latest version of libwww-perl is available from CPAN:

     http://search.cpan.org/dist/libwww-perl/

If you want to hack on the source it might be a good idea to grab the

latest version with git using the command:

     git clone git://gitorious.org/libwww-perl/mainline.git lwp

You can also browse the git repository at:

     http://gitorious.org/projects/libwww-perl

COPYRIGHT

  © 1995-2008 Gisle Aas. All rights reserved.

  © 1995 Martijn Koster. All rights reserved.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify

it under the same terms as Perl itself.

Enjoy!