cpan libwww-perl 5.72

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  • Requests for some non-HTTP URLs would fail if the cookie_jar was enabled.
    The HTTP::Cookies::add_cookie_header now ignore non-HTTP requests.
  • The new local/http test failed on Windows because of a missing binmode().
  • Suppress Client-SSL-Warning warning header when Crypt::SSLeay is able to
    verify the peer certificate. Joshua Chamas joshua@chamas.com.
  • HTTP::Request::Common::POST did not add a 'Content-Length' header when
    the content ended up empty. by Brian J. Murrell.
  • Internally generated responses now contain a text/plain part that repeats
    the status line. They also have a "Client-Warning" header that can be
    used to differentiate these responses from real server responses.
  • LWP::UserAgent now deals with 303 and 307 redirects. The behaviour of 302
    redirects has also changed to be like 303; i.e. change the method to be
    "GET". This is what most browsers do. Tom Hughes thh@cyberscience.com
  • LWP::UserAgent now implements a 'max_redirect' attribute with a default
    value of 7. This should also fix the problem where redirects to the
    same URL to get a cookie didn't work. Sean M. Burke sburke@cpan.org.
  • NTLM authentication should continue to fail if the Authen::NTLM module
    can't be loaded. LWP used to think the scheme was available as soon as
    the module stash showed up. Not it looks for the authenticate method to
    be defined. Patch by Jan Dubois.
  • lwp-download will not try to rename *.tbz and *.tar.bz2 to match the
    reported content type. Robin Barker Robin.Barker@npl.co.uk.
  • HTTP::Cookies::Netscape documentation fix by Sean M. Burke.
  • HTTP::Cookies::Microsoft documentation fix by Johnny Lee.
  • The code that tries to avoid installing 'HEAD' on top of 'head' on
    systems like Mac OS was further improved to look in
    $Config{installscript} instead of $Config{sitebin}. Patch provided by
    Ken Williams ken@mathforum.org.

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