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in thread Grabbing a web page without LWP or the like

Ah... a helpful monk pointed out to me that the "--" votes are probably due to the fact that I am trying to reinvent the wheel with this solution, and such is frowned upon. Well, I have 2 things to say in my defence regarding that:
  1. It is clear that the existing wheel dos not fit the vehicle, so I am forced to improvise, and
  2. If no one EVER reinvented the wheel, we'd still be clunking around on some rounded rock with a stick through the middle. Re-exercising an old skill a bit never hurt anybody, and often hones said skill.
Now I'm wondering how many "--" votes this one will fetch. Ah, well.

Alan "Hot Pastrami" Bellows
-Sitting calmly with scissors-
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Grabbing a web page without LWP or the like
by merlyn (Sage) on Nov 22, 2000 at 03:46 UTC
    You're fully permitted and encouraged to reinvent the wheel, provided that you first study all existing art, which means you wouldn't have asked the question you did. {grin}

    -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker