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+libwww-perl - WWW client/server library for perl
+
+It is a set of Perl modules which provides a simple and consistent
+application programming interface to the World-Wide Web. The main focus of
+the library is to provide classes and functions that allow you to write
+WWW clients. The library also contain modules that are of more general
+use and even classes that help you implement simple HTTP servers.
+
+It includes the following perl modules: Bundle::LWP, File::Listing,
+HTML::Form, HTTP::Cookies, HTTP::Cookies::Microsoft, HTTP::Cookies::Netscape,
+HTTP::Daemon, HTTP::Date, HTTP::Headers, HTTP::Headers::Auth,
+HTTP::Headers::ETag, HTTP::Headers::Util, HTTP::Message, HTTP::Negotiate,
+HTTP::Request, HTTP::Request::Common, HTTP::Response, HTTP::Status, LWP,
+LWP::Authen::Basic, LWP::Authen::Digest, LWP::Authen::Ntlm, LWP::ConnCache,
+LWP::Debug, LWP::DebugFile, LWP::MediaTypes, LWP::MemberMixin, LWP::Protocol,
+LWP::Protocol::GHTTP, LWP::Protocol::cpan, LWP::Protocol::data,
+LWP::Protocol::file, LWP::Protocol::ftp, LWP::Protocol::gopher,
+LWP::Protocol::http, LWP::Protocol::http10, LWP::Protocol::https,
+LWP::Protocol::https10, LWP::Protocol::loopback, LWP::Protocol::mailto,
+LWP::Protocol::nntp, LWP::Protocol::nogo, LWP::RobotUA, LWP::Simple,
+LWP::UserAgent, Net::HTTP, Net::HTTP::Methods, Net::HTTP::NB, Net::HTTPS,
+WWW::RobotRules, WWW::RobotRules::AnyDBM_File.
+
+It requires: perl-html-parser, perl-html-tagset and Compress-Zlib. All of
+them are available on SlackBuilds.org