And I think what he's saying (and I agree) is that 99% of the time, when somebody has a "I am limited to Perl distribution modules" restriction, it's an artificial limitation imposed by people that either don't understand what modules are or just don't understand what's involved in installing them.

Because, face it, if you have the means to mass-distribute your code, it's trivial to go one step further and mass-distribute modules with it. 99% of the time, this limitation is non-sensical, so people tend to keep repeating, "You're better off finding a way to distribute a pre-existing module that does the work you're wanting to do."

Look how easily LWP can do this: 

use LWP::Simple;

my $content = get("http://www.example.com/some/page");

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In reply to Re: Re: (tye)Re: Grabbing a web page without LWP or the like by Fastolfe
in thread Grabbing a web page without LWP or the like by Hot Pastrami

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