diff options
author | Cheng-Lung Sung <clsung@FreeBSD.org> | 2009-04-22 02:53:16 +0000 |
---|---|---|
committer | Cheng-Lung Sung <clsung@FreeBSD.org> | 2009-04-22 02:53:16 +0000 |
commit | a0f6c3e7de8b9a7e006977e88f4cf796db1aed7f (patch) | |
tree | abc42f79f9994a02fb9a694d0a5b8f9a988b8696 /www/p5-WWW-Mechanize-GZip/pkg-descr | |
parent | b0c9b9e6656f5e4733432bb2c315d0d7429a263e (diff) |
Notes
Diffstat (limited to 'www/p5-WWW-Mechanize-GZip/pkg-descr')
-rw-r--r-- | www/p5-WWW-Mechanize-GZip/pkg-descr | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/www/p5-WWW-Mechanize-GZip/pkg-descr b/www/p5-WWW-Mechanize-GZip/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..cb1466849250 --- /dev/null +++ b/www/p5-WWW-Mechanize-GZip/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +The WWW::Mechanize::GZip module tries to fetch a URL by requesting +gzip-compression from the webserver. + +If the response contains a header with 'Content-Encoding: gzip', +it decompresses the response in order to get the original +(uncompressed) content. + +This module will help to reduce bandwith fetching webpages, if +supported by the webeserver. If the webserver does not support +gzip-compression, no decompression will be made. + +This modules is a direct subclass of WWW::Mechanize and will +therefore support any methods provided by WWW::Mechanize. + +WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/WWW-Mechanize-Gzip/ |