I am trying to provide a "nicer" UserAgent string in my code, pointing to a page that references the use of the code. The module I'm using is XML::RSS::Tools, and it uses either LWP internally, or HTTP::GHTTP if found (it claims ghttpd is faster).

All of the magic in XML::RSS::Tools happens in a sub called _http_get(), which looks like: 

        # Try and use Gnome HTTP, it's faster
        eval { require HTTP::GHTTP; };

        if ($@) {
                # Otherwise use LWP
                require LWP::UserAgent;
                my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
                $ua->agent("iC-XML::RSS::Tools/$VERSION "
                           . $ua->agent . " ($^O)");
                [...] 
        } else {
                my $r = HTTP::GHTTP->new($uri);
                $r->process_request;
                my $xml = $r->get_body;
                [...]

                } else {
                [...]
                }
        }

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What I'm trying to do, is override that use of the LWP::UserAgent call there, or override the default one that HTTP::GHTTP uses ("libghttp/1.0").

How can I do this?

In reply to Overriding module-internal calls by Anonymous Monk

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