Some that spring immediately to mind:

  1. LWP is a standard part of Perl (since 5.8.0) therefore it will always be installed whereas lynx is something extra to install.
  2. Using internal code is always safer and faster than shelling out to an external program.
  3. LWP can be used to give you more information - like the HTTP response header - which might be useful in the future.
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In reply to Re: Advatages of LWP? by davorg
in thread Advatages of LWP? by ChrisJ-UK

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