Libwww-perl is a collection of Perl modules which provides
a simple and consistent programming interface (API) to the
World-Wide Web. The main focus of the library is to
provide classes and functions that allow you to write WWW
clients, thus libwww-perl said to be a WWW client library.
The library also contain modules that are of more general
use.
The main architecture of the library is object oriented.
The user agent, requests sent and responses received from
the WWW server are all represented by objects. This makes
a simple and powerful interface to these services. The
interface should be easy to extend and customize for your
needs.
Binary packages can be installed with the high-level tool pkgin (which can be installed with pkg_add) or pkg_add(1) (installed by default). The NetBSD packages collection is also designed to permit easy installation from source.
The pkg_admin audit command locates any installed package which has been mentioned in security advisories as having vulnerabilities.
Please note the vulnerabilities database might not be fully accurate, and not every bug is exploitable with every configuration.
Problem reports, updates or suggestions for this package should be reported with send-pr.