BSD Ports

www/p5-libwww 6.83 OpenBSD

library for WWW access in Perl

System
OpenBSD
Repository
OpenBSD ports
Maintainer
The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <[email protected]>
Last update
Commit
cd4f8e6bf0
Categories
www, perl5

Description

Libwww-perl is a collection of Perl modules which provides a simple and consistent application 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 and even classes that help you implement simple HTTP servers.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 6.83, as upstream numbers it.

SystemPortVersionVulnerabilitiesStatusMaintainerLast update
OpenBSDwww/p5-libwww6.83 newestno data-The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <[email protected]>2026-08-27
FreeBSDwww/p5-libwww6.83 newestnone known-[email protected]-
NetBSDwww/p5-libwww6.83nb1 newestnone known-[email protected]2026-07-16
DragonFlywww/p5-libwww6.78 behind since 2026-08-27none known-[email protected]-
MidnightBSDwww/p5-libwww6.83 newestno data-[email protected]-
HardenedBSDwww/p5-libwww6.83 newestno data-[email protected]-
GhostBSDwww/p5-libwww6.83 newestno data-[email protected]-
OPNsensewww/p5-libwww6.83 newestno data-[email protected]-

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Version history 1

  1. 6.83 cd4f8e6bf0

Upstream's version as each commit to the port's Makefile set it, or as this site first saw it in the system's packages; the tree's own revisions are not versions here.

Install

Binary package:

pkg_add p5-libwww

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/www/p5-libwww && make install

Dependency graph

Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right; at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.

Dependencies

Run dependencies 12
Required by 103

The first 100 are listed.

Commit history 1

DateCommitCreditsLog message
cd4f8e6bf0 bluhm update p5-libwww to 6.83 fix run and test dependencies according to portgen CVE-2026-8368