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+The HTTP-Message distribution contains classes useful for representing the
+messages passed in HTTP style communication. These are classes representing
+requests, responses and the headers contained within them.
+
+The following classes are provided:
+
+ HTTP::Message base class (what's common between requests and responses)
+ - HTTP::Request request on a resource (subclass of message)
+ - HTTP::Response response from the resource (subclass of message)
+ HTTP::Headers headers embedded in messages
+
+Other related modules:
+
+ HTTP::Config configuration of request/response handling
+ HTTP::Headers::Util helper functions for parsing of HTTP header values
+ HTTP::Request::Common helper functions for constructing requests
+ HTTP::Status symbolic names for the HTTP response status codes
+
+This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
+the same terms as Perl itself.
+
+Copyright 1995-2008 Gisle Aas.