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in thread LWP::UserAgent lengthy download

If you don't make an explicit request for an image (URL), LWP::UserAgent won't download the image. That's how HTTP works.

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Re^4: LWP::UserAgent lengthy download
by jonnyfolk (Vicar) on Feb 20, 2010 at 14:21 UTC

    Hi, thanks for your response. I'm trying to understand what is happening. From what you are saying contrary to viewing from a browser, it is unlikely that the delay is being caused by having to wait for images to download as there is no specific request - or is there?

    $resp = $ua->get("http://mysite.net.net/etc;

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      Maybe now is a good moment to learn about HTTP, and the request-response mechanism?

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        Hi, I thank you for your persistence and patience!!

        I have been through the protocol you sent and and set environment variable $ENV{PERL_LWP_USE_HTTP_10} = 1; This seems to have made a difference - I am no longer getting timeouts.

        I wanted to check if this is a right/wrong move and if there are other thing s I might try to speed up the delivery of results.

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