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.