I write a lot of apps that get data from the web. I lot of times I use WWW::Mechanize or just LWP::UserAgent directly. What I want is a cache like most other browsers (user agents) have. A lot of time the content requested is dynamic but most of the time when I am doing some sort of testing (parsing pages) I request the same page several times. I generally use one of two solutions:
(1) use Memoize on request()
(2) write a wrapper that looks in a specified directory for the filename that I am requesting.

Over time I add things like uptodate test (1 line) or a directory size check (2-3) lines. Is there a module out there that already does this, not generally, but specially for LWP? If not, then I am going to write LWP::Cache and would like some advice on what to add, and what to stay away from.

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In reply to Wanted: LWP::Cache by smalhotra

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