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+ Libwww-perl is a collection of Perl modules which provides
+ a simple and consistent 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.
+
+ The main architecture of the library is object oriented.
+ The user agent, requests sent and responses received from
+ the WWW server are all represented by objects. This makes
+ a simple and powerful interface to these services. The
+ 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.
+