Why not reimplement _http_get method? You can subclass XML::RSS::Tools like so:

package XML::RSS::Tools::Mine;

use base 'XML::RSS::Tools';
use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::UserAgent;

#
#       Grab something via HTTP
#
sub _http_get {
  my $self= shift;
  my $uri = shift;

  my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
  $ua->agent('my_user_agent');
  my $response = $ua->request(HTTP::Request->new('GET', $uri));

  return $self->_raise_error("HTTP error: " . $response->status_line) 
+if $response->is_error;

  return $response->content();
}

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Then change the calling code:

use XML::RSS::Tools::Mine;
my $rss_feed = XML::RSS::Tools::Mine->new;
$rss_feed->rss_uri('http://freshmeat.net/backend/fm-releases.rdf');
print $rss_feed->as_string(rss), "\n";

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HTH, Valerio

In reply to Re: Overriding module-internal calls by valdez
in thread Overriding module-internal calls by Anonymous Monk

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