You might want to check out POE::Component::Client::UserAgent. One of the test scripts (t/02-multi.t) does pretty much what you want.

Update 11/03/02: Here is a much shorter script, that at least demonstrates fetching a list of documents, and uses 10 threads. Liberal adding of "print" statements to assist understanding of the code is left as an exercise for the reader.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use POE;
use POE::Component::Client::UserAgent;

my @urls = map { "http://sam.vilain.net/$_" }
    qw(index.html hobbies.html CV foo bar);

sub _start {
    $_[HEAP]->{alias} = "useragent".$_[ARG0];
    POE::Component::Client::UserAgent->new
        (alias => $_[HEAP]->{alias});
    $_[KERNEL]->yield("next");
}

sub next {
    if (my $url = pop @urls) {
        $_[KERNEL]->post (
            $_[HEAP]->{alias} => "request",
            {
                request => HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url),
                response => $_[SESSION]->postback('next')
            }
        );
    } else {
        $_[KERNEL]->post (
            $_[HEAP]->{alias} => "shutdown",
        );
    }
}

for (1..10) {
    POE::Session -> create
            (
             inline_states => {
                               _start => \&_start,
                               next => \&next,
                              },
             args => [ $_ ],  # arguments
            );
}

$poe_kernel->run();

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PS LWP::Parallel::UserAgent 2.51 has a bug;
  1. The line 182 of LWP::Parallel::UserAgent.pm needs to be my $self = new LWP::UserAgent; instead of my $self = new LWP::UserAgent $init;
  2. You may also need to insert the line use HTML::HeadParser; anywhere near the top of LWP::Parallel::Protocol.pm.

In reply to use POE; by mugwumpjism
in thread Using LWP::Parallel by wilstephens

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