Erm, what exactly would you expect to be saved? Aside from cookies (which you can arrange to be saved by creating your own HTTP::Cookies instance and passing that to your mech instance's cookie_jar method) I'm not thinking of a whole lot worthwhile state that you could save (I mean maybe the history of what URLs you fetched, but if you grabbed it once you could grab it again (and probably would want to to get the most up-to-date contents) . . .).

Perhaps if you described in more detail exactly what you think you'd gain by serializing a mechanize instance to disk you might get more cogent help.

In reply to Re: WWW::Mechanize clone by Fletch
in thread WWW::Mechanize clone by lazybowel

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