Revision history for Perl extension HTTP::Lite. 0.01 Sun Aug 27 21:51:45 2000 - original version; created by h2xs 1.1.1.2 0.03 Sat Sep 9 14:05:00 2000 - fixed two minor bugs as found and reported by "Marcus I. Ryan" . See Lite.pm for details. 0.2.5 Thu Dec 21 13:09:00 2000 - fixed minor bug with MIME type provided for posts to be x-www-form-urlencoded, as reported by Tobias Kunze 1.0.0 Tue Jan 8 19:42:00 2002 - Fixed bug where content-type was always set to only set it has not yet been set. Thanks to Rui Miguel Seabra - Fixed bug where file descriptors were not being released by request() Thanks to Ross Snyder" - Fixed a bug preventing the module from working with Win32. The side-effect is that timeouts do not work in Win32. Thanks to Andrew Brown 1.0.1 Tue Jun 11 15:30:00 2002 - Changed default protocol to HTTP/1.0 and added a switch to activate HTTP/1.1 protocol. 1.0.2 Tue Jun 11 15:30:00 2002 - Fixed a few errors in the distribution including missing test files. 2.1.0 Tue Jun 12 17:50:00 2002 MAJOR UPDATE - Added a callback hook to request() to allow handling of very large files and to allow filtering of content. - Rewrote significant parts of the code to use references instead of passing data. - Rewrote the engine to read data in blocks instead of by lines when not transferring headers - Removed the redundant ->content method and associated variables to enable handling of large files. - Added lots of debugging code (Enable with $http->{DEBUG} - Changed ->reset to only clear state and headers instead of also resetting all switches (HTTP/1.1 state, DEBUG state). - Singnificant speedup of data transfer code - Changed filehandle names to be $url.time() - Eliminated all -w warnings 2.1.1 Thu Jun 13 15:55:00 2002 - Documentation fix - Compatibility fix for 5.005 2.1.3 Mon Feb 10 16:15:00 2002 - Documentation fixes - Fixed large write bug in http_write - Documented callback system - Added local_addr and local_port settings - Added method setting to allow use of any request method (GET, PUT, POST, HEAD) 2.1.5 Sun Oct 5 20:55:00 2003 - Fixed duplicate my in method() - Added default content-type for posts - header_at_once mode, patch submitted by Roman Radaschutz 2.1.6 Wed Jan 21 16:54:31 2004 - Fixed User-Agent header problem - Fixed lowercase header bugs - Thanks goes to contributed patches by various people