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Agreed. But LWP is used all over the place and he's more likely to find it in his tutorials and books and classes. You'd be at a sore disadvantage if you didn't know some LWP in my opinion. But you may think me an old fart.

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Re^4: web spider
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 13, 2015 at 08:53 UTC

    1nickt: Agreed. But LWP is used all over the place and he's more likely to find it in his tutorials and books and classes. You'd be at a sore disadvantage if you didn't know some LWP in my opinion. But you may think me an old fart.

    WWW::Mechanize is a subclass of LWP, a very very thin layer on top of LWP, that makes LWP a joy to use, pure LWP is too much bookkeeping -- for example, take a look around perlmonks for amount of noobs who forgot to make a cookie jar when trying to learn LWP -- Mechanize takes care of that chore

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      No links to any modules mentioned? ✓

      No links to PerlMonks articles claimed to exist? ✓

      Vague description which is essentially wrong ("very, very thin layer") but could be considered right with a bit of squinting? ✓

      Gushing without saying anything really? ✓

      Self-elevation by calling others noobs? ✓

      Not helping OP in any way whatsoever? ✓

      No code? ✓

      If you're not sundialsvc4, you're doing a very convincing impression. And I repeat, the upvotes you get anonymously do not prove any conspiracy, only that everyone here is genial and gives participants the benefit of the doubt.

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        And then what happened?

        LWP still has more book keeping than Mechanize, Mechanize is still easier to use

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