Thanks for the ideas. It was exactly what I came looking for when I posted. I am trying to think whether LWP::Cache will actually provide anything beneficial over LWP::UserAgent::mirror() (which is what I was planning to use) and Cache::File. Please feel free to continue posting ideas here or here. I like the wiki as brainstorming platform or to summarize a thread like this one.

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