Re^4: web spider

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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Re^5: web spider by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Nov 13, 2015 at 16:13 UTC
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.	[reply]
Re^6: web spider by Anonymous Monk on Nov 17, 2015 at 08:57 UTC
And then what happened? LWP still has more book keeping than Mechanize, Mechanize is still easier to use	[reply]