wok annotate python-mechanize/description.txt @ rev 25288
libQt5Plugins: removed dependency libQt3Support
| author | Hans-Günter Theisgen |
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| date | Tue Jul 19 07:28:24 2022 +0100 (2022-07-19) |
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| Hans-Günter@25203 | 1 Stateful programmatic web browsing, after Andy Lester's Perl module WWW::Mechanize. |
| Hans-Günter@25203 | 2 |
| Hans-Günter@25203 | 3 Mechanize.Browser implements the urllib2.OpenerDirector interface. |
| Hans-Günter@25203 | 4 Browser objects have state, including navigation history, HTML form state, cookies, |
| Hans-Günter@25203 | 5 etc. |
| Hans-Günter@25203 | 6 The set of features and URL schemes handled by Browser objects is configurable. |
| Hans-Günter@25203 | 7 The library also provides an API that is mostly compatible with urllib2: |
| Hans-Günter@25203 | 8 your urllib2 program will likely still work if you replace "urllib2" with "mechanize" |
| Hans-Günter@25203 | 9 everywhere. |
| Hans-Günter@25203 | 10 |
| Hans-Günter@25203 | 11 Features include: ftp:, http: and file: URL schemes, browser history, hyperlink and |
| Hans-Günter@25203 | 12 HTML form support, HTTP cookies, HTTP-EQUIV and Refresh, Referer [sic] header, |
| Hans-Günter@25203 | 13 robots.txt, redirections, proxies, and Basic and Digest HTTP authentication. |
| Hans-Günter@25203 | 14 |
| Hans-Günter@25203 | 15 Much of the code originally derived from Perl code by Gisle Aas (libwww-perl), |
| Hans-Günter@25203 | 16 Johnny Lee (MSIE Cookie support) and last but not least Andy Lester (WWW::Mechanize). |
| Hans-Günter@25203 | 17 Urllib2 was written by Jeremy Hylton. |