Hello, I have been trying to use www::robot but I seem to be facing a memory management problem. I am actually letting the robot to traverse my web site ( a large-ish one > 10000 pages) and by the time it reaches ~3000 pages the memory reserved is nearly 1GB (!). I am using the standard way of invoking it as per its own documentation. I.e. 
$robot = new WWW::Robot ( 'NAME' => 'blabla',
                          'VERSION' => '123456',
                          'EMAIL' => 'me@home.com');

$robot->run($rootDOcument);

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..and I have defined the necessary hooks which work successfully. I have faced the incompatibility with the latest version of WWW::RobotUA and dealt with it by hardcoding the RobotUA 'FROM' to an email address (..I know I shouldnt but I am working on tight timelines :-( ). Does anybody have any experience using this module? Any ideas on a way forward?

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