The latest libwww-perl and some modules based on it are here. It uses several extensions that we decide to pack together with libwww in our port distribution - it actually seems to be more handy. So, the YeP-perl libwww-perl package now contains:

• libwww-perl v 5.20
• libnet v 1.0605
• MIME-Base-64 v 2.05

To use the libwww-perl library:

• Download and install Cygwin 'Usertool' and YeP-perl core distribution.
• Download the combination of libwww-perl extensions we have build for you. Simply unpack the archive and copy the whole tree to your /qub directory, the one that contains YeP-perl Core distribution. We use this plug-and-play style when distributing YeP-perl extensions.

Now test it (if you wish). We suggest step-by-step testing in the following order:

Testing MIME-Base-64

cd /qub/t/t.base64
runtests.bat 

t/base64............ok
t/quoted-print......ok
All tests successful.
Files=2,  Tests=305,  1 secs ( 0.86 cusr  0.33 csys =  1.19 cpu)

Testing libnet. Do not forget to edit your /qub/lib/Net/Config.pm. Also, you can rename t/ph.t.skip to t/ph.t if you would like to test them also.

cd /qub/t/t.libnet
runtests.bat 

t/ftp...............ok
t/hostname..........ok
t/nntp..............ok
t/require...........ok
t/smtp..............ok
All tests successful.
Files=5,  Tests=23, 21 secs ( 4.74 cusr  2.17 csys =  6.91 cpu)

Testing libwww-perl itself. You can download SDBM extension if you want robot/rules-dbm test to be successful.

cd /qub/t/t.libwww-perl
runtests.bat 

base/afm............skipping test on this platform
base/common-req.....ok
base/cookies........ok
base/date...........ok
base/headers........ok
base/listing........ok
base/mediatypes.....ok
base/message........ok
base/negotiate......ok
base/response.......ok
base/status.........ok
uri/base............ok
uri/heuristic.......FAILED before any test output arrived
uri/rel-base........ok
html/entities.......ok
html/filter.........ok
html/headparser.....ok
html/linkextractor..ok
html/parsefile......ok
html/parser.........ok
html/split..........ok
robot/rules-dbm.....ok
robot/rules.........ok
robot/ua............ok
local/autoload......ok
local/get...........ok
local/http..........ok
local/protosub......ok
Failed Test  Status Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of failed
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
uri/heuristic.t              ??   ??       %  ??

We have replaced Cwd:fastcwd() with Cwd:cwd() in auto/URI/URL/file/newlocal.al but left the heuristic problem untouched because we don't understand the purpose of the module. Would be glad to here from anyone who have an idea about this.

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