F r a m e s R e a d y ------------------------- The FramesReady package depends on the libwww-perl collection of Perl modules which provides a simple and consistent application programming interface to the World-Wide Web. The main focus of this library is to provide classes and functions that allow you to write WWW clients that retrieve framesets and in-line frames for integration into the initially requested Web pages for fuller content evaluation. That, of course, is you want to evaluate all the content at one time. The children can be examined individually, as well, by tracing down through the descendants. PREREQUISITES In order to install and use this package you will need Perl version 5.005 or better. Some modules within this package depend on other packages that are distributed separately from Perl. We recommend that you have the following packages installed before you install FramesReady: URI MIME-Base64 LWP-UserAgent Net-HTTP Net-FTP HTML-HeadParser HTML-Parser HTML-Form Digest-MD5 These packages should be available on CPAN (see below). INSTALLATION You install FramesReady using the normal perl module distribution drill: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install If you want to install a private copy of FramesReady in your home directory, then you should try to produce the initial Makefile with something like this command: perl Makefile.PL LIB=~/perl The Makefile.PL program will start out by checking your perl installation for a few packages that are recommended to be installed together with FramesReady. DOCUMENTATION See ./lib/LWP/UserAgent/FramesReady.pm and ./lib/HTTP/Response/Tree.pm for an overview of the library. See ./ChangeLog for recent changes. POD style documentation is included within all modules and scripts. These are normally converted to manual pages and installed as part of the "make install" process. You should also be able to use the 'perldoc' utility to extract and read documentation from the module files directly. SUPPORT Questions about how to use this library should be directed to the comp.lang.perl.modules USENET Newsgroup. Bug reports and suggestions for improvements can be sent to . You might also think of joining the mailing list by sending a message to . ^^^^^^^^^^ AVAILABILITY The library is available from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN). Visit to find a CPAN site near you. COPYRIGHT © 2002 N2H2, Inc. All rights reserved. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. Enjoy!