Network Programming with Perl

Installing LWP

The first version of LWP appeared in 1995, and was written by Martijn Koster and Gisle Aas. It has since been maintained and extended by Gisle Aas, with help from many contributors.

The basic LWP library, distributed via CPAN in the file libwww-X.XX.tar.gz (where X.XX is the most recent version number), provides supports for the HTTP, FTP, Gopher, SMTP, NNTP, and HTTPS (HTTP over Secure Sockets Layer) protocols. However, before you can install it, you must install a number of prerequisite modules:

URI	URL parsing and manipulation
Net::FTP	to support ftp://URLs
MIME::Base64	to support HTTP Basic authentication
Digest::MD5	to support HTTP Digest authentication
HTML::HeadParser	for finding the <BASE> tag in HTML headers

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