#142 LWP::Simple head

[Anonymous]

In 5.8.0a2, LWP::Simple's head function always fails.

Code previously run under 5.2.0r4 failed without exception until
head() was replaced with get() (less efficient but a workaround).

Relevant lines:

use LWP::Simple qw(get head);
if (head($url)) { ...

head() always fails. get() works.

[Chris Nandor]

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Thanks for the report. webgod@mindspring.com reported that
the Net/HTTP/ directory is missing (I removed it
accidentally, probably thinking it was part of libnet
instead of LWP); adding it back in from the 5.6.1r1 lib
directory, or from the LWP distribution, fixes the problem.
It will be fixed in a future release.s