Thanks for the word of caution NetWallah and stevieb. Stability is in the *$^&£@&* of the beholder, I say, though it sounds cockier than it is.

As a side remark, personally I would never publish anything which can not be expanded or inherited by 3rd party. If I can't do it, even if it is "lightning fast" I would consign it to the catacombs. But everyone is different and everyone has their reasons and not everyone can write "lightning fast" browsers.

For the record, Furl does not offer adding callbacks (LWP::UserAgent's add_handler()) to be called at the various phases of the transaction, so it does not serve my purpose. I ended using LWP::Protocol::Net::Curl which, so far, keeps its word as "drop-in curl replacement for LWP::UserAgent", including callbacks and some speed improvement by mere use LWP::Protocol::Net::Curl; uuse parent 'LWP::UserAgent';

bw, bliako