LWP User Agent

[sergemob]

Can I use Perl module LWP::UserAgent?

 

[Corey]

What is it for? What does it do?

 

[Slothie]

The LWP::UserAgent is a class implementing a simple World-Wide Web user agent in Perl. It brings together the HTTP::Request, HTTP::Response and the LWP:rotocol classes that form the rest of the core of libwww-perl library. For simple uses this class can be used directly to dispatch WWW requests, alternatively it can be subclassed for application-specific behaviour.

 

[RatedXSemistar]

^Are you really that dumb? Make some sense idiot/

 

[Livewire]

^Are you really that dumb? Make some sense idiot/

Good one. Yeah, that'll get you points on the forum :nuts:


@Slothie, for those of us who aren't nearly as technically inclined, can you perhaps break it down a bit and explain it in simpler terms? What I seem to be gathering is that it can send requests out to other websites, but I'm not positive I'm reading that right (been a long time since I've seen fine print like that >_<).

 

[RatedXSemistar]

Don't call me whacko...Your the only one who who is crazy.

 

[Slothie]

Yeah it can be used to generate simple web requests or else just identify the user agent of specific browsers and generate code specific to 'em

 

[Corey]

I have installed LWP::UserAgent on the server you are on.

-Corey