Hi everyone,
I'm currently trying to load and parse a web page (weather information) every hour to get some overview over the temperature development over the day. It does seem though as if LWP::Simpe's get function were caching the page since it gives me the same page over and over again -- even though the content of the resource changed.
Here's a simplified version of the code: 
#!perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::Simple;

while (1) {
   my $page = get 'http://de.weather.yahoo.com/GRXX/GRXX0024/index_c.h
+tml';

   $page
      or die "Failure: $!\n";
   
   $page =~ /Heute(?:\s*<[^>]+>)*\s*([^<]+)/i
      or die "No match\n";

   print $1, "\n";
   sleep 60 * 60;
}

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Does anyone know what is going on? Is get actually caching the page or did I just screw up the script?
Thanks in advance,
CombatSquirrel.
Entropy is the tendency of everything going to hell.

In reply to Is LWP::Simple's get function caching pages? by CombatSquirrel

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