The question is perhaps too general, but let my try to be specific. Suppose I extract from a URL the website content such as: 

my $response = HTTP::Tiny->new->get($url);

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Suppose further that for whatever reason this is a malicious URL. What is the internal workings of HTTP:Tiny and would some of the more common malware that one encounters exhibit their malicious activity through such a scraping command?

My intuition tells me that if targeting scrapers specifically, there would be a risk. For other types of malware that execute in browsers, would the script return the source without triggering the malicious code in the website?

In reply to Malware on Webpages Visited by Crawlers by mikorym

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