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Libwww-perl is a collection 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, thus libwww-perl said to be a
WWW client library. The library also contain modules that are of
more general use and even classes that help you implement simple
HTTP servers.
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This is a collection of modules that parse and extract information
from HTML documents. Bug reports and discussions about these modules
can be sent to the <libwww@perl.org> mailing list. Remember to
also look at the HTML-Tree package that creates and extracts
information from HTML syntax trees.
The modules present in this collection are:
HTML::Parser - The parser base class. It receives arbitrary sized
chunks of the HTML text, recognizes markup elements, and
separates them from the plain text. As different kinds of
markup and text are recognized, the corresponding event
handlers are invoked.
HTML::Entities - Provides functions to encode and decode text
with embedded HTML >entities>.
HTML::HeadParser - A lightweight HTML::Parser subclass that
extractsinformation from the <HEAD> section of an HTML document.
HTML::LinkExtor - An HTML::Parser subclass that extracts links
from an HTML document.
HTML::TokeParser - An alternative interface to the basic parser
that does not require event driven programming. Most simple
parsing needs are probably best attacked with this module.
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This package contains the URI.pm module with friends. The module
implements the URI class. Objects of this class represent Uniform
Resource Identifier (URI) references as specified in RFC 2396.
URI objects can be used to access and manipulate the various
components that make up these strings. There are also methods to
combine URIs in various ways.
The URI class replaces the URI::URL class that used to be distributed
with libwww-perl. This package contains an emulation of the old
URI::URL interface. The emulated URI::URL implements both the old
and the new interface.
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This Perl module provides support for the https protocol under LWP,
so that a LWP::UserAgent can make https GET & HEAD & POST requests.
Please see 'perldoc LWP' for more information on POST requests.
