HTTP::Handle 0.2
Posted Sat, 03 Jul 2004
After using HTTP::Handle heavily in my new link spider for work, I found a bunch of bugs and pitfalls that would snag it and make it eat iself. The lacking-features and bugs I found were added and fixed, respectively.
* $http->connect() now returns -1 on failure.
Connections will fail on 3 occaisions: socket() fails, connect() fails, or the dns lookup on the hostname fails.
* After the socket is connected, $http->connect() can fail if no data is recevied in a given timeout period, which can be set. See perldoc HTTP::Handle.
It should be up on CPAN sometime later this morning, I just uploaded it.