You could always dump the contents of this lot into a single file, show it to your boss and see if he changes his mind about using modules:^) 

 LWP::MemberMixin   -- Access to member variables of Perl5 classes
   LWP::UserAgent   -- WWW user agent class
     LWP::RobotUA   -- When developing a robot applications
   LWP::Protocol          -- Interface to various protocol schemes
     LWP::Protocol::http  -- http:// access
     LWP::Protocol::file  -- file:// access
     LWP::Protocol::ftp   -- ftp:// access
     ...

 LWP::Authen::Basic -- Handle 401 and 407 responses
 LWP::Authen::Digest

 HTTP::Headers      -- MIME/RFC822 style header (used by HTTP::Message
+)
 HTTP::Message      -- HTTP style message
   HTTP::Request    -- HTTP request
   HTTP::Response   -- HTTP response
 HTTP::Daemon       -- A HTTP server class

 WWW::RobotRules    -- Parse robots.txt files
   WWW::RobotRules::AnyDBM_File -- Persistent RobotRules

The following modules provide various functions and definitions.

 LWP                -- This file.  Library version number and document
+ation.
 LWP::MediaTypes    -- MIME types configuration (text/html etc.)
 LWP::Debug         -- Debug logging module
 LWP::Simple        -- Simplified procedural interface for common func
+tions
 HTTP::Status       -- HTTP status code (200 OK etc)
 HTTP::Date         -- Date parsing module for HTTP date formats
 HTTP::Negotiate    -- HTTP content negotiation calculation
 File::Listing

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In reply to Re: monitoring a webpage using perl4 without using modules? by BrowserUk
in thread monitoring a webpage using perl4 without using modules? by Fr3ddy

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