I am trying to grab all the images from a websites directory. The site has a page that links to all the images in this directory. Now after trying a few things with Image::Grabber I am finding (at least I believe) that the page must display the image in order for the image to be grabbed. Otherwise it returns an "unable to find absolute path" error. Is there a trick I can pull to grab the images from a directory using Image::Grabber (i.e. regular expression in the search_url instead of using regexp) or should I be using LWP:Simple or such. The page I am testing this on is http://www.poop.com/pics/index.html (actually some funny stuff here).

I hope this hasn't been answered before. I super searched and found no solutions discussing directory downloads. Anyways, any help is appreciated
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