This helped greatly speeding up zip downloads when I added this fix to the collect method in LWP::Protocal under perl 5.825. Before the fix it took ~3.5h to download 28 zip files and after adding this LWP::Protocal fix it took only ~1.5h :-)

However, now I have perl 5.8.9 (with latest libwww-perl 5.825 2009-02-16) installed *and* the zip downloads are back to taking ~3.5 hours.

I diffed the Protocal.pm files but they are redical different (between libwww-perl 5.825 2009 and Protocol.pm,v 1.41 2003/10/23 19:11:32) and I don't see any hooks for a similar quick fix.

Can anyone suggest a fix for speeding up downloads using libwww-perl (5.825 2009-02-16)...?

In reply to Re^3: LWP slow downloads on windows (50 times faster?) by kszyska
in thread LWP slow downloads on windows by robobunny

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