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diff --git a/www/p5-HTTP-GHTTP/pkg-descr b/www/p5-HTTP-GHTTP/pkg-descr index ef811279dd97..93d679c85926 100644 --- a/www/p5-HTTP-GHTTP/pkg-descr +++ b/www/p5-HTTP-GHTTP/pkg-descr @@ -1,12 +1,15 @@ -HTTP::GHTTP +This is a fairly low level interface to the Gnome project's libghttp, +which allows you to process HTTP requests to HTTP servers. There also +exists a slightly higher level interface - a simple get() function which +takes a URI as a parameter. -This module is a simple interface to the Gnome project's libghttp. - -It allows you to make very simple HTTP requests, without the weight -of something like LWP. This makes it very useful in situations where +It allows you to make very simple HTTP requests, without the weight of +something like LWP. This makes it very useful in situations where memory and speed are at a premium, such as mod_perl. It has full support for proxy requests and authenticated requests. -This is free software distributed under the same terms as Perl itself, -and the code is Copyright AxKit.com Ltd, 2000. +WWW: http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=HTTP-GHTTP + +-- Sergey Skvortsov +skv@FreeBSD.org |