[adrianhoward]

Strange. I never connected the REST "Roy Fielding" with the libwww-perl "Roy Fielding". How odd.

[draegtun]

Neither did I.

Some reference for others reading this: https://metacpan.org/module/LWP#AUTHORS

LWP owes a lot in motivation, design, and code, to the libwww-perl library for Perl4 by Roy Fielding, ...