Re: Subclass of both WWW::Mechanize::GZip and WWW::Mechanize::Sleepy

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Andy Lester <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Aug 17, 2011, at 5:05 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to use the features of both WWW::Mechanize::GZip and
> WWW::Mechanize::Sleepy. Does anybody let me know what I should use? Is
> there a subclass of both?
>
> If ::GZip just ungzips content as it comes in, that's now a built-in feature
> of Mech.  And I know that the fucntionality of ::Sleepy is pretty trivial,
> and could be incorporated into your own subclass of Mech with minimal
> effort.
> xoa

According to man WWW::Mechanize, there is an internal method.

   $mech->_modify_request( $req )
       Modifies a HTTP::Request before the request is sent out, for
both GET and POST requests.

       We add a "Referer" header, as well as header to note that we
can accept gzip encoded content, if Compress::Zlib is installed.


I have Compress::Zlib installed. But it seems that I have to explicit
called it to modify the request. But I don't want to do so as it is an
internal method.

Currently, I do the following. But this wastes some bandwidth. Would
you please let me know how to use WWW::Mechanize with gzip?

$browser->add_header('Accept-Encoding' => 'identity');
my $response = $browser->get($uri);


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Regards,
Peng