The route will parse parameter string, which must be in HTTP User-Agent header form, and return the browser platform. The returned value is string with one of the following values: Win95, Win98, WinNT, UNIX, MAC, Win3x, OS2, Linux. If the platform is not one of these (i.e. one of the robots), the returned string is empty.

This is an extension of the HTTP::Request suite. It allows easy processing of forms in a user agent by filling out fields, querying fields, selections and buttons and pressing buttons. It uses HTML::TreeBuilder generated parse triees of documents (especially the forms parts extracted with extract_links) and generates it's own internal representation of forms from which it then generates the request objects to process the form application.

The jtruncate function truncates text to a length $length less than bytes. It is designed to cope with Japanese text which has been encoded using one of the standard encoding schemes - EUC, JIS, and Shift-JIS. It uses the Lingua::JA::Jcode module to detect what encoding is being used.

Mason is a tool for building, serving and managing large web sites. Its features make it an ideal backend for high load sites serving dynamic content, such as online newspapers or database driven e-commerce sites. Mason's various pieces revolve around the notion of components''.

The Text::Sentence module contains the function split_sentences, which splits text into its constituent sentences, based on a fairly approximate regex. If you set the locale before calling it, it will deal correctly with locale dependant capitalization to identify sentence boundaries. Certain well know exceptions, such as abreviations, may cause incorrect segmentations.