Hi all,

I am trying to get response from three diff sites and to process the catenate response for some work i am doing

i really don't know what i am doing wrong Please help me

for some reason although for (1..3) the fork creating 5-6 processes and the script doe's not ends

WHAT DO I DO WRONG? 

use LWP::UserAgent;
 
my $pid = fork();
my $resp;
for (1..3) {
    if ($pid = fork()) { next; }
       if (defined $pid) { 
           $resp .= GET(); 
           print "=" x155 ."\n$resp\n" ."=" x155 ."\n";
           exit; }
       else { die "Fork failed\n"; }
} 
sub GET {
    my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
       $ua->agent("Perl 5.8.8");
       my $req = HTTP::Request->new("GET", "http://www.google.com/");
       my $res = $ua->request($req);
       if ($res->is_success) { print "OK\n"; return $res->content; }
       else { die "HTTP::Request error"; }
}

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PS: You can suggest to use ParallelUA, but it's not possible in my case.

In reply to parallel HTTP::Request by RedGrinGo

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