also make things 5.36 if not used

move to use v5.36;
tested by me over the last few weeks, and tb@
also fixed a "manual install" bug properly reported by tb@

aside that there should be *no functional change*.
If you see any message

move to use v5.36;
tested by me over the last few weeks, and tb@
also fixed a "manual install" bug properly reported by tb@

aside that there should be *no functional change*.
If you see any message like "hey, the number of params is wrong"
it is a fringe case I didn't run into and should be easy to fix.

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stop using old-style prototypes except where strictly necessary
(for try/catch)

signatures will be much more powerful once I move to 5.36

Adjust the html index-parsing regex to cope with anchor tags that aren't
just '<a href="foo">'; several mirrors now include a title attribute which
pkg_add can't cope with.

Diff from Taylor Stearns

Adjust the html index-parsing regex to cope with anchor tags that aren't
just '<a href="foo">'; several mirrors now include a title attribute which
pkg_add can't cope with.

Diff from Taylor Stearns to handle attributes following the href; tweaked
by me to also handle attribute before the href.

ok zhuk@

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Rename Persistant to Persistent.

sure espie@

remove $_ usage that warns under perl 5.18

mostly done

clean-up a few things

most of the pieces are there... still need to open a new connection if
server drops us.

a little better, but not yet ready

skeleton for grabbing files...

Also handle normal Content-Length

chunked directory transfers

a few typos, nothing working yet... needs to parse Chunked transfer

wip, definitely not finished (and not used) yet

future code to handle HTTP 1.1 connection: need to establish a somewhat
persistant connection, will use the same client code for scp and http.