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author | Stanislas Leduc <shann@slitaz.org> |
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date | Fri Mar 22 16:28:42 2024 +0000 (3 months ago) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/python-mechanize/description.txt Fri Mar 22 16:28:42 2024 +0000 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ 1.4 +Stateful programmatic web browsing, after Andy Lester's Perl module WWW::Mechanize. 1.5 + 1.6 +Mechanize.Browser implements the urllib2.OpenerDirector interface. 1.7 +Browser objects have state, including navigation history, HTML form state, cookies, 1.8 +etc. 1.9 +The set of features and URL schemes handled by Browser objects is configurable. 1.10 +The library also provides an API that is mostly compatible with urllib2: 1.11 +your urllib2 program will likely still work if you replace "urllib2" with "mechanize" 1.12 +everywhere. 1.13 + 1.14 +Features include: ftp:, http: and file: URL schemes, browser history, hyperlink and 1.15 +HTML form support, HTTP cookies, HTTP-EQUIV and Refresh, Referer [sic] header, 1.16 +robots.txt, redirections, proxies, and Basic and Digest HTTP authentication. 1.17 + 1.18 +Much of the code originally derived from Perl code by Gisle Aas (libwww-perl), 1.19 +Johnny Lee (MSIE Cookie support) and last but not least Andy Lester (WWW::Mechanize). 1.20 +Urllib2 was written by Jeremy Hylton.