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diff --git a/www/p5-URI-Title/pkg-descr b/www/p5-URI-Title/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..0d280de4341e --- /dev/null +++ b/www/p5-URI-Title/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Let's suppose you want to find the title of things on the web. This +seems like a really simple request, just get() the object, parse for a +title tag, you're done. There are several problems with this approach: + +- What if the resource is on a very slow server? Do we wait for ever or + what? + +- What if the resource is a 900 gig file? You don't want to download + that. + +- What if the page title isn't in a title tag, but is buried in the HTML + somewhere? + +- What if the resource is an MP3 file, or a word document or something? + +This module attempts to solve this problem. + +WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/URI-Title/ |