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  • I think the subject says it all. NB the author of IO::Socket::IP is keen for it to make it into a core module. I don't know if there's any official word on this, but seems it hasn't been tested much ...
    Danny ThomasDanny Thomas
    May 15, 2013 at 9:24 pm
    May 15, 2013 at 9:24 pm
  • Hi, it would be nice if the module can parse meta-tags with the attribute 'property' like: <meta property="og:type" content="university" that come from open graph, Facebook in the module ...
    Stefan BergerStefan Berger
    May 14, 2013 at 7:15 am
    May 14, 2013 at 7:15 am
  • Some LWP requests are hanging *most* of the time. Sometimes they work. At times it seems dependent if gzip is used or not. This behavior seems to have started with recent LWP upgrades. If I use ...
    Bill MoseleyBill Moseley
    Mar 8, 2013 at 7:47 am
    Mar 11, 2013 at 11:11 pm
  • I tried mailing the maintainer but no response there has led me to a bit more public forum. Using any perl 5.8 (since I really don't have older except for one system about to be upgraded, they're ...
    Philip KizerPhilip Kizer
    Mar 1, 2013 at 9:40 pm
    Mar 1, 2013 at 10:59 pm
  • Hello! I'm using a Perl script to monitor many webservers. I do a request on a page using LWP, check header and content, and print the result (OK/WARNING/ERROR). For https; I would like to also check ...
    Sebastien KoechlinSebastien Koechlin
    Feb 27, 2013 at 4:38 pm
    Mar 1, 2013 at 4:05 pm
  • I need to do some upload testing where I can control the chunk size and rate of an upload. So, what I'd like is to use a sub ref that is called for each chunk that is uploaded. I'm not very clear ...
    Bill MoseleyBill Moseley
    Jan 17, 2013 at 5:45 am
    Jan 17, 2013 at 11:46 am
  • Hi First many thanks for all the familly of LWP, HTML excellent modules and the work invested on them. My question concerns the decode_entities, unicode and *some* HTML entities (the ones in the ...
    Vangelis KatsikarosVangelis Katsikaros
    Jan 8, 2013 at 11:12 am
    Jan 8, 2013 at 2:16 pm
  • Hello. A small bug report from me. I have actually 3. here is 1st one. (I am not sure where to send bug reports, as there is 3 places with libwww-perl issue lists) In the docs for LWP::UserAgent ...
    Victor EfimovVictor Efimov
    Dec 8, 2012 at 8:17 pm
    Dec 8, 2012 at 8:17 pm
  • Dear web perlers, I encountered a web page that consistently hangs, no matter what browsing agent is used, IE, Firefox and (this is my problem) LWP::UserAgent ("ua"). This page is at ...
    Meir GuttmanMeir Guttman
    Dec 8, 2012 at 7:15 pm
    Dec 9, 2012 at 6:46 pm
  • Dear all, NEED HELP!!! I am new to Perl,(only 6 month experience). I am working in web based application using CPAN. they are using "use warnings" for enable warnings for in all pm modules. There are ...
    NitaiNitai
    Nov 26, 2012 at 6:15 am
    Nov 26, 2012 at 4:44 pm
  • Hello. A small bug report from me. I have actually 3. here is 1st one. (I am not sure where to send bug reports, as there is 3 places with libwww-perl issue lists) In the docs for LWP::UserAgent ...
    Victor EfimovVictor Efimov
    Nov 10, 2012 at 9:37 pm
    Nov 10, 2012 at 9:37 pm
  • Hi, Is it possible to authenticate the user on Windows without entering the password? Our script uses LWP and is talking to a webserver that requires authentication. The code is as follows: # Perl ...
    Samuel FerencikSamuel Ferencik
    Oct 24, 2012 at 2:25 pm
    Oct 25, 2012 at 7:39 pm
  • Hi, I am not a PERL expert and am looking for some Crypt::SSLeay usage support, hopefully someone can help me out. We have a perl trigger script that has been working fine by Rational Change using ...
    Goon ChewGoon Chew
    Oct 23, 2012 at 4:03 am
    Oct 24, 2012 at 8:58 pm
  • Hi, I have some suggestions about Net::SSL. In our project we often set proxy env like below: $ENV{HTTPS_PROXY} = http://proxy_hostname_or_ip:port/ There is a slash in the end. But Net::SSL can't ...
    Wen, YigangXWen, YigangX
    Oct 18, 2012 at 7:52 am
    Oct 18, 2012 at 6:26 pm
  • Hi, I have a problem that my perl modules are not anymore downloading a large file from a https site. It worked with a previoius built, but since I update all modules via cpan it fails after ...
    Markus MoellerMarkus Moeller
    Sep 22, 2012 at 11:25 pm
    Sep 28, 2012 at 6:16 pm
  • Dear all, During the recent Moving to Moose hackathon[1], it was decided we needed to consolidate modules that dealt with namespaces, and prefix-namespace mappings. There are various uses for this, ...
    Kjetil KjernsmoKjetil Kjernsmo
    Sep 7, 2012 at 7:08 pm
    Sep 7, 2012 at 7:08 pm
  • Hello! I would like to ask you for a little assistance with the following issue... There are websites, which contain special German characters in their URLs, for example ...
    Pawel KrolPawel Krol
    Aug 16, 2012 at 3:18 pm
    Aug 16, 2012 at 5:02 pm
  • Hi, Running 6.03 on Ubuntu 12.04 fairly patched up. (Within a month). Odd situation... I'm running hundreds of gets/posts in a single program which is running great. Every #X transactions I have to ...
    TucTuc
    Jun 18, 2012 at 6:44 pm
    Sep 20, 2012 at 3:00 pm
  • I have small problem that appears to be related to the LWP module even though I'm using SOAPLite. I'm new to Perl, so figuring this out has been difficult. I've documented the problem at the ...
    Arshad NoorArshad Noor
    Jun 7, 2012 at 5:40 pm
    Jun 8, 2012 at 12:26 am
  • At long last, HTML-Tree can now use weakrefs. This means you no longer need to call "$tree- delete" to prevent memory leaks. Right now, you can get trial release 4.900 from CPAN ...
    Christopher J. MadsenChristopher J. Madsen
    Jun 1, 2012 at 9:00 pm
    Jun 12, 2012 at 6:49 pm
  • We have a RESTful type of API and we have a logical object that contains an audio file. We can use HTTP::Request::Common to POST this object but PUT doesn't work to update because the code for ...
    Bill MoseleyBill Moseley
    May 31, 2012 at 1:18 pm
    May 31, 2012 at 1:18 pm
  • Hi all I'm trying to install Crypt-SSLeay on a debian system. If I try to install with the command apt-get install libcrypt-ssleay-perl This fails with a message as follows; The following packages ...
    Mark HardwickMark Hardwick
    May 8, 2012 at 9:11 pm
    May 8, 2012 at 9:11 pm
  • Hi, What is the status of IPv6 support in libwww? There has been a ticket asking for IPv6 support since 2007: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29468 The 6 June 2012 is being treated as ...
    Andre-John MasAndre-John Mas
    Apr 16, 2012 at 1:00 pm
    Jun 4, 2012 at 10:42 am
  • I would like to download gzip (or similarly encoded) HTML content. If I keep the response in a variable, I can decode the contents using the 'decoded_content' method, as follows (Just extracted from ...
    Meir GuttmanMeir Guttman
    Apr 14, 2012 at 8:25 pm
    Apr 16, 2012 at 7:10 am
  • (Forgive me if I'm doing this wrong, I haven't used this mailing list before) Jesper; I ran into the same issue and worked around it for now by making a small modification to the referenced ...
    Kevin ChernoffKevin Chernoff
    Apr 11, 2012 at 10:15 pm
    Apr 12, 2012 at 6:29 pm
  • Is it considered acceptable for a subclass of LWP::UserAgent to invent a new phase name, and process handlers for that phase in new and/or overridden methods? If so, are there any naming ...
    Aaron CraneAaron Crane
    Mar 31, 2012 at 11:49 am
    Mar 31, 2012 at 11:49 am
  • Hi Team, I am seeking help on an issue that I am facing while compiling Crypt::SSLeay module. I have successfully installed Openssl on the AIX 5.3 V12 successfully through SMITTY but when I try to ...
    Vishal PathakVishal Pathak
    Mar 12, 2012 at 12:17 pm
    Mar 12, 2012 at 12:17 pm
  • I use HTTP::Request::Common to build an application/x-www-form-urlencoded POST from a passed-in hash. The hash contains strings as values. $req = POST /foo, \%parameters; This uses URI- query_form to ...
    Bill MoseleyBill Moseley
    Mar 3, 2012 at 8:25 am
    Mar 5, 2012 at 10:32 am
  • I have a user-supplied filename that could be anything, including path segments and fullset of unicode characters (It's decoded as UTF-8 when supplied by the user. There seems to be quite a bit of ...
    Bill MoseleyBill Moseley
    Feb 29, 2012 at 7:16 am
    Mar 1, 2012 at 8:38 am
  • I can't check at this moment whether this is new in 5.15.7 make test for WWW-Mechanize-1.71 t/credentials-api.t ...... Use of uninitialized value in lc at ...
    Danny ThomasDanny Thomas
    Jan 22, 2012 at 7:09 am
    Jan 22, 2012 at 7:09 am
  • A website is sending the same http header twice: Client-Transfer-Encoding: chunked Client-Transfer-Encoding: chunked Which gives an error: Can't handle transfer encoding 'chunked,chunked' at ...
    Jesper PerssonJesper Persson
    Jan 19, 2012 at 6:46 am
    Jan 19, 2012 at 6:46 am
  • I stumbled across this bug: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66313 and a discussion here about removing HTTP::Message's dependency on HTML::Parser (which needs a C compiler) for charset ...
    Christopher J. MadsenChristopher J. Madsen
    Jan 16, 2012 at 11:56 pm
    Jan 17, 2012 at 4:39 am
  • Net/HTTP.pm reads: 7 unless ($SOCKET_CLASS) { 8 eval { require IO::Socket::INET } || require IO::Socket; 9 $SOCKET_CLASS = "IO::Socket::INET"; 10 } I'm curious, shouldn't it read like the following ...
    Ivan ShmakovIvan Shmakov
    Nov 30, 2011 at 4:27 am
    Nov 30, 2011 at 4:27 am
  • I think we need a better solution for HTML::Tagset than to Just Add Tags to what's there, as is suggested here https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67299 To be clear: I'm NOT looking for a ...
    Andy LesterAndy Lester
    Nov 4, 2011 at 2:03 pm
    Nov 4, 2011 at 2:03 pm
  • Currently LWP does not support HTTPS over proxies. I’m trying to write a patch for just that, but I’m not sure whether the special-casing code should go in LWP::UserAgent::send_request or in ...
    Father ChrysostomosFather Chrysostomos
    Nov 2, 2011 at 2:52 am
    Nov 4, 2011 at 2:37 am
  • We have a perl-5.10.1 install tree that is quite up to date. All SSL related things have been compiled and linked against OpenSSL-0.9.8r We have a perl-5.14.2 tree ready to take over, but that has ...
    H.Merijn BrandH.Merijn Brand
    Oct 26, 2011 at 3:34 pm
    Nov 3, 2011 at 5:12 am
  • Hi all I sent this to Gisle on 4 October but have had no reply. Thinking his account may be whitelisted, I am posting it again here. Since there are no bugs - even cleared ones - on the CPAN ...
    Rob DixonRob Dixon
    Oct 14, 2011 at 10:03 pm
    Oct 15, 2011 at 10:39 pm
  • LWP hangs when POSTing on server that uses chunked transfer-encoding. The solution is to prevent reading while file is not uploaded completely. Please, take a look on attachment (diff of ...
    Valentin DudouytValentin Dudouyt
    Oct 13, 2011 at 8:35 am
    Oct 14, 2011 at 9:52 pm
  • Hi there, I'm writing a module SRU::Client and like a good boy, I wrote a test script (using Test::More). I couldn't figure out why the test script would run on one machine, but not on another, until ...
    Boyd DuffeeBoyd Duffee
    Oct 5, 2011 at 6:52 pm
    Oct 5, 2011 at 7:58 pm
  • Hi everybody, is there some way of forcing what ip-address useragent- request connects to when you make a http request to some website? If I already know what ip-address a domain resolves to and dont ...
    Jesper PerssonJesper Persson
    Sep 23, 2011 at 11:01 am
    Sep 23, 2011 at 11:06 am
  • Hi, I have tried to use 2 scripts which I think should do similar things, but the first one is working, while the second is not. Can you make some light and tell me what's the difference between them ...
    Octavian RasnitaOctavian Rasnita
    Sep 5, 2011 at 4:07 pm
    Sep 5, 2011 at 4:32 pm
  • Hi, $browser is an object of WWW::Mechanize. I'm do not completely understand the differences between different charsets. But I'm wondering if I should always check the charset in the header of an ...
    Peng YuPeng Yu
    Aug 19, 2011 at 1:51 am
    Aug 19, 2011 at 8:17 am
  • Hi, I'd like to use the features of both WWW::Mechanize::GZip and WWW::Mechanize::Sleepy. Does anybody let me know what I should use? Is there a subclass of both? -- Regards, Peng
    Peng YuPeng Yu
    Aug 17, 2011 at 10:05 pm
    Aug 19, 2011 at 1:18 am
  • Hi, I don't see that there is a way to set the maximum download bandwidth (in the unit of MB/s) in WWW::Mechanize. Does anybody know if there is a way to limit the speed of the download? -- Regards, ...
    Peng YuPeng Yu
    Aug 15, 2011 at 4:40 am
    Aug 15, 2011 at 5:38 am
  • Hi, I'm not able to find an archive for recent messages on libwww-perl mailing list. Does anybody know where is the archive? http://lists.perl.org/list/libwww-perl.html -- Regards, Peng
    Peng YuPeng Yu
    Aug 8, 2011 at 9:08 pm
    Aug 9, 2011 at 12:49 pm
  • Hi, Here is a patch to use NTLM authentication on proxy. Most of the code was already here. Why is get_basic_credentials from UserAgent.pm returning nothing when $proxy is true ? --- before/Ntlm.pm ...
    Vincent G.Vincent G.
    Aug 4, 2011 at 9:21 am
    Aug 4, 2011 at 9:21 am
  • In reading 'perldoc WWW::Mechanize' or 'man WWW::Mechanize' the description for $mech- select has been confusing me for a while. Today I looked at the source and recognized why. First there is a '}' ...
    Mike McClainMike McClain
    Aug 1, 2011 at 4:23 pm
    Aug 1, 2011 at 8:47 pm
  • After installing Crypt::SSLeay whenever i hit a URL it gives me an error like this LWP will support https URLs if the Crypt::SSLeay module is installed. More information at ...
    Maller, ManjunathMaller, Manjunath
    Jul 27, 2011 at 5:12 am
    Jul 27, 2011 at 5:12 am
  • I just tried that out with WWW::Scripter (a Mech subclass), and it doesn’t have that problem. It uses a different module (HTML::DOM) for form serialisation. Mech uses HTML::Form. Maybe it’s an ...
    Father ChrysostomosFather Chrysostomos
    Jul 17, 2011 at 8:32 pm
    Jul 18, 2011 at 12:20 pm
  • Hi all, I'm having problems logging into a site with LWP and I think it might be something to do with the header or an encoding thing. I have to parse out a couple session identifiers from the log in ...
    Chris GreenhillChris Greenhill
    Jul 12, 2011 at 4:28 pm
    Jul 13, 2011 at 5:53 pm
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