About LWP in general??

About LWP in general??

am 18.08.2006 11:48:30 von nomad.c

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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??
thanks
Chris

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Re: About LWP in general??

am 18.08.2006 18:30:08 von Andy

On Aug 18, 2006, at 4:48 AM, chris choi wrote:

> 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??

If you're spidering in Perl, you'll want to use WWW::Mechanize, which
wraps LWP.

xoxo,
Andy

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Re: About LWP in general??

am 12.09.2006 23:28:55 von RP

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No, the LWP is not at all outdated, and very much the standard Web client library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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Re: About LWP in general??

am 12.09.2006 23:40:29 von eliakim

sorry to post this to the list, but i've tried and failed to
unsubscribe from this list. can someone please help??

eli


On Sep 12, 2006, at 2:28 PM, Reinier Post wrote:

> 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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> Reinier Post
> TU Eindhoven