On 01 Dec 2004 01:35:13 -0800, Gisle Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Zed Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'd like to suggest these differences be documented. > > I agree this is wrong. Do you want to suggest a doc patch?
I'm working on the doc patch... would it be considered desirable to document that a user can get get() to drive HTTP::Request by setting $LWP::Simple::FULL_LWP to a true value? Or that one can use get_old() to drive HTTP::Request? Obviously, no one wants to add a lot of complexity to a ::Simple module, but right now the behavior includes: the user agent and HTTP version are subject to change if an HTTP proxy is in use or if the requested page does a redirect. And there's no way to code around that within this module's public interface. The choices seem to be to direct users to live with that and to avoid LWP::Simple if they can't, or to document at least one of $FULL_LWP and get_old(). Zed
