LWP UserAgent visible

imrags has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Monks
I have used Win32::IEAutomation and WWW:Mechanize and Win32::OLE.
Unfortunately, I'm now asked to port all scripts to LWP
I have IE and Firefox, I want to make the IE 7/Firefox, whichever useragent i use to be visible
while the script is executing

use LWP::UserAgent;
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(visible=>1);
$ua->agent('Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1');
my $request = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url);
my $response = $ua->request($request);
my $content = $response->content();
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I saw through the LWP module code, didn't find anything related to making it visible.
Any idea on how to make the browser visible using LWP?

Raghu

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Re: LWP UserAgent visible by Corion (Patriarch) on Mar 20, 2009 at 11:48 UTC
LWP::UserAgent does not use either Internet Explorer or Mozilla FireFox. The closest thing I know to showing the HTML page is through HTML::Display. But maybe I misunderstood your question and you can describe in more detail what you want to do instead of what you think is the solution.	[reply]
Re: LWP UserAgent visible by Sinistral (Monsignor) on Mar 20, 2009 at 12:29 UTC
As corion says, LWP::UserAgent does not use a browser at all. The code itself acts like a browser, doing the low level communication to a web server. I checked the LWP::UserAgent man page, and 'visible' is not one of the options to the constructor. I didn't expect it to be, either, since there is nothing but Perl code running when you use the module. Why do you need to see a browser to process the response?	[reply]