So what I'd like to do is within Apache/mod_perl (specifically a Mason component) is download a web page from a third party web server with some kind of HTTP client library (LWP?) and then add, filter or otherwise munge the HTML and then re-serve it as the output of the PerlHander (Mason component).

I guess it is a sort of HTTP server/client proxy thing.

My question is, (A) is there an existing module that is purpose built for embedding an HTTP client inside of mod_perl?, or, if not (B) what would be the best approach to do this? Just load LWP? Is there a lighterweight solution, giving the premium of memory space in an Apache child process?

Any ideas appreciated. -Andrew.

Andrew Tomazos  |  andrew@tomazos.com  |  www.tomazos.com

In reply to Embedding LWP inside mod_perl (+Mason) by tomazos

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