doc/features.html

   1 <title>libwww-perl-5 features</title>
   2
   3 <h1>Features</h1>
   4
   5 <ul>
   6
   7   <li> Provides an OO model of HTTP style communication.  Within this
   8        framework we support:
   9
  10        <ul>
  11          <li> http
  12          <li> gopher
  13          <li> ftp
  14          <li> file
  15          <li> mailto
  16        </ul>
  17
  18   <li> Contains several reuseable components that can be used
  19        separately.
  20
  21   <li> Support basic authorization
  22
  23   <li> Transparent redirect handling
  24
  25   <li> Supports proxy
  26
  27   <li> URL handling (both absolute &amp; relative)
  28
  29   <li> RobotRules (a parser for robots.txt files)
  30
  31   <li> MailCap handling
  32
  33   <li> HTML parser and formatter (PS and plain text)
  34
  35   <li> The library provides both an OO interface and a simple
  36        procedural interface.
  37
  38   <li> A simple command line client application that is called
  39        <em>request</em>.
  40
  41   <li> The library can cooperate with Tk.
  42        A simple Tk-based GUI browser is distributed with the Tk
  43        extention for perl.
  44 </ul>
  45