What does LWP::UserAgent do?

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I tried my perldoc -q UserAgent and it says no info available so asking here what does the below UserAgent part doing? And what do I need to fill in with some of the agent values for a script on Windows NT workstation???


use strict;
use LWP::UserAgent;


my $from_addr  = 'what goes here?';
my $agent_name = 'scriptname.pl';   # name of script??


my $timeout    = 5;   

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->agent("$agent_name " . $ua->agent);
$ua->from($from_addr);
$ua->timeout($timeout);
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Re: What does LWP::UserAgent do? by valdez (Monsignor) on Aug 28, 2002 at 10:20 UTC
Try with perldoc LWP::UserAgent. If you need an overview, please read LWP, especially section about "The User Agent" HTH, Valerio	[reply]
Re: What does LWP::UserAgent do? by moxliukas (Curate) on Aug 28, 2002 at 10:34 UTC
You can also have a look at `perldoc lwpcook` in addition to what other monks have suggested. You can also find it online at http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/lib/lwpcook.html	[reply] [d/l]
Re: What does LWP::UserAgent do? by PodMaster (Abbot) on Aug 28, 2002 at 10:21 UTC
UserAgent does not exist. Try perldoc LWP::UserAgent. Also, read How to RTFM `____________________________________________________` ** The Third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.	[reply]
Re: What does LWP::UserAgent do? by mrguy123 (Hermit) on Jul 05, 2006 at 09:51 UTC
Try this link: http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/libwww-perl-5.805/lib/LWP/UserAgent.pm	[reply]