Perl module geared for HTTP testing

 This package provides LibWhisker 2 (LW2), a flexible, portable and
 self-contained Perl module implementing fast and small replacements
 to the usual HTTP testing functions, as available in LWP, URI,
 HTML::Parser, MIME::Base64, etc.
 .
 It supports:
    - HTTP 0.9, 1.0, and 1.1;
    - persistent connections (with keep-alives);
    - proxying;
    - anti-IDS features;
    - SSL (through libnet-ssleay-perl);
    - chunked encoding;
    - basic and NTLM authentication.