Re: About LWP in general??

On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 10:48:30AM +0100, chris choi wrote:
> Hi
> I'm new to Perl, but considering writing web robots/Spiders in Perl, but I'm
> not too sure if the LWP is out-dated or something cause I haven't heard
> anything about LWP recently, so I was wondering if you guys know if there is
> a new thing to write WEB robots with on PERL??

No, the LWP is not at all outdated, and very much the standard Web client library
for Perl, as far as I'm aware.  There is little development activity goes on, but
in this case, as far as I'm aware, this is not a sign of abandonment, but of
maturity: the library is finished and does what it was designed to do.
Gisle Aas, its maintainer, monitors this list for feature requests and
bug reports, and occasionally creates a new LWP version in response.

Yes, there are newer libraries specifically for writing Web robots in Perl;
some of them are in CPAN, and are frequently mentioned here; WWW::Mechanize
is the name I see most often.  These libraries all use LWP, as far as I'm aware,
and you are definitely advised to use them instead of building your own directly
on top of LWP.  However, I do not use any of them at the moment, so I cannot
give you more information.

> thanks
> Chris

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