Re: HelpNeeded!!! How to test for the fastest server to download from?

s/Needed/Wanted/.

Try using a Stopwatch to time an LWP::Simple::get()

2;0 juerd@ouranos:~$ perl -e'undef christmas'
Segmentation fault
2;139 juerd@ouranos:~$
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Re: HelpNeeded!!! How to test for the fastest server to download from? by hacker (Priest) on Dec 21, 2001 at 16:05 UTC
You probably want to use HEAD, not GET. Something like: `$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new; $request = HTTP::Request->new(HEAD => "$url"); $response = $ua->request($request); $status_line = $response->status_line;` [download] Using 'GET' on a large page will not really be a good determining factor of response time, but using HEAD will.	[reply] [d/l]