in reply to Using Less Memory for LWP/FTP

The LWP::UserAgent documentation tells me of two special parameters to get(): 

    :content_file   => $filename
    :content_cb     => \&callback

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The :content_file parameter is for directly saving the content of the response to a file, the :content_cb parameter is for passing the contents directly to a supplied callback.

You should also take a look at the mirror() and getstore() methods, which might be suitable for your tasks as well.

perl -MHTTP::Daemon -MHTTP::Response -MLWP::Simple -e ' ;    # The  
$d = new HTTP::Daemon and fork and getprint $d->url and exit;#spider
($c = $d->accept())->get_request(); $c->send_response( new   #in the
HTTP::Response(200,$_,$_,qq(Just another Perl hacker\n))); ' #  web

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