I only just recently really noticed the Win32::Internet module, which hopefully can serve as replacement for the LWP-library. What I like about it is the possibility to setup "asynchronous" connection which will, as I understand it, work in similar ways as a multi threaded application with LWP. Also the footprint and appsize when used with perlapp from Activestate is microscopic when compared to LWP. Plus that I'm also a little feed up with the "timeout issue" problems that LWP seems to have sometimes.

Please don't get me wrong, I like LWP allot, its a terrific package, but I'm just interested in investigating possible alternatives.

I've searched the web, newsgroups and PM for more info on this module but it doesn't seem like anyone is using it?
Why?

Also I was wondering if anyone have gone the route of adding any cookie support for this module, or having any suggestion about how to do that, as well as proxy server support (with username/pw).

Also is it likely that this module will work on win9x (ugh) as well as xp/2000?

In reply to Some win32::Internet questions by ldln

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