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diff --git a/www/p5-libwww/pkg-descr b/www/p5-libwww/pkg-descr index 43fd44c9e4c2..cfada1dbef7b 100644 --- a/www/p5-libwww/pkg-descr +++ b/www/p5-libwww/pkg-descr @@ -13,42 +13,4 @@ interface should be easy to extend and customize for your needs. - The main features of the library are: - - o Contains various reuseable components (modules) that - can be used separately or together. - - o Provides an object oriented model of HTTP-style - communication. Within this framework we currently - support access to http, gopher, ftp, news, file, and - mailto resources. - - o The library be used through the full object oriented - interface or through a very simple procedural - interface. - - o Support the basic and digest authorization schemes. - - o Transparent redirect handling. - - o Supports access through proxy servers. - - o URL handling (both absolute and relative URLs are - supported). - - o A parser for robots.txt files and a framework for - constructing robots. - - o An experimental HTML parser and formatters (for - PostScript and plain text). - - o The library can cooperate with Tk. A simple Tk-based - GUI browser called 'tkweb' is distributed with the Tk - extention for perl. - - o An implementation of the HTTP content negotiation - algorithm that can be used both in protocol modules and - in server scripts (like CGI scripts). - - o A simple command line client application called lwp- - request. +http://www.linpro.no/lwp/ |