I would tend to propose that you extend WWW::Mechanize to support having multiple browser sessions.

package WWW::Mechanize::Clones;
use strict;
use warnings;
use Storable 'dclone';

sub WWW::Mechanize::clone { dclone $_[0] }

__END__

=head1 NAME

WWW::Mechanize::Clones - "fork" browser windows

=head1 DESCRIPTION

This allows you to "fork" a WWW::Mechanize browser so you can follow m
+ultiple links.

=head1 SYNOPSIS

 use WWW::Mechanize;
 use WWW::Mechanize::Clones;

 my $browser = WWW::Mechanize->get( ... );

 my @browsers =
     map( { my $new_browser = $browser->clone;
            $new_browser->follow_link( $_ ); }
          $browser->find_all_links( ... ) );

=head1 ADDED METHODS

=over 4

=item $browser->clone

This additional method is added to the WWW::Mechanize class so that yo
+u can make a copy of your browser at a point in time. This allows you
+ to follow multiple links from the same page without having to back t
+rack.

Here is an example of how to do this without this module:

 $browser->follow_link( ... );
 # do some work
 $browser->back;
 $browser->follow_link( ... );

And here is how you can how do this. You no longer have to keep track 
+of how many times to use ->back to get back to where you can follow t
+he other link.

 my $new_browser = $browser->clone;
 $browser->follow_link( ... );
 $new_browser->follow_link( ... );

=back

=cut

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In reply to Re: WWW::Mechanize and following multiple links ( use WWW::Mechanize::Clones) by diotalevi
in thread WWW::Mechanize and following multiple links by friedo

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