Source: libhttp-cookies-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: gregor herrmann Section: perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9) Build-Depends-Indep: perl, libhttp-date-perl, libhttp-message-perl Standards-Version: 4.1.1 Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libhttp-cookies-perl.git Vcs-Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-perl/packages/libhttp-cookies-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/HTTP-Cookies Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Package: libhttp-cookies-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, libhttp-date-perl, libhttp-message-perl Breaks: libwww-perl (<< 6.00) Replaces: libwww-perl (<< 6.00) Description: HTTP cookie jars This class is for objects that represent a "cookie jar" -- that is, a database of all the HTTP cookies that a given LWP::UserAgent object knows about. . Cookies are a general mechanism which server side connections can use to both store and retrieve information on the client side of the connection. For more information about cookies refer to and . HTTP::Cookies also implements the new style cookies described in RFC 2965. The two variants of cookies are supposed to be able to coexist happily. . Instances of the class HTTP::Cookies are able to store a collection of Set-Cookie2: and Set-Cookie: headers and are able to use this information to initialize Cookie-headers in HTTP::Request objects. The state of a HTTP::Cookies object can be saved in and restored from files.