Hello fellow monks,

we've been using LWP::Curl v0.5 on our server quite some time, without any problems. Since we're moving to a new server, I'm testing our code, and I can't get LWP::Curl to work. I keep getting following error:

Undefined subroutine &LWP::Curl::encode called at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/LWP/Curl.pm line 211.

Since it worked in v0.05 but not in v0.06, I did a diff between the two versions and found only around 10 lines had changed. It seems a bit like a quick update, because he changed

our $VERSION = '0.06';

but he forgot to change this in the POD, as you can see on CPAN.

Another change is that he used to do
use HTML::Entities
but now instead does
use URI::Escape

Now HTML::Entities has a method "encode", but URI::Escape does not. This might be what is causing the error. URI::Escape does have a method uri_escape.

Since his changelog does not even include a date, leave alone what was changed or why, I can only use the file date as reference. It seems this version dates from january 2009, so I'd be suprised if I was the first to discover this bug.

What would be my best cause of action?
* Simply use module v0.05 on the new server, and don't ever update?
* Contact the author, file a bug report?
* Fix the bug (Curl.pm) myself?

Thanks for your input!

In reply to Bug in LWP::Curl v0.6? by wdsaeghe

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