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Does LWP::UserAgent download images himanshu.garg 03-04-2008
Posted by himanshu.garg on March 4, 2008, 5:15 am
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 Hi,

Will the following code also download the images on
search.cpan.org, if any :-

require LWP::UserAgent;
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $response = $ua->get('http://search.cpan.org/');

If yes, is there a way to avoid them. I want to minimize the
bandwidth the program consumes.

Thank You,
Himanshu.


Posted by Ben Morrow on March 4, 2008, 6:26 am
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Quoth himanshu.garg@gmail.com:
>
> Will the following code also download the images on
> search.cpan.org, if any :-
>
> require LWP::UserAgent;
> my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
> my $response = $ua->get('http://search.cpan.org/');

No. LWP doesn't follow links to images, it just gets the URI you ask
for.

Ben


Posted by Jürgen Exner on March 4, 2008, 9:19 am
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himanshu.garg@gmail.com wrote:
> Will the following code also download the images on
>search.cpan.org, if any :-

It will get whatever resource you ask it to get. If you ask for an HTML page
then it will get that HTML page, if you ask for a picture then it will get
that picture. It doesn't care about the different content types.

jue

Posted by himanshu.garg on March 5, 2008, 1:23 am
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> himanshu.g...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Will the following code alsodownloadthe images on
> >search.cpan.org, if any :-
>
> It will get whatever resource you ask it to get. If you ask for an HTML pa=
ge
> then it will get that HTML page, if you ask for a picture then it will get=

> that picture. It doesn't care about the different content types.
>
> jue

Thanks for the replies. I don't have to worry about unnecessary image
downloads now.

Will also check WWW::Mechanize and the documentation of LWP.

Thanks,
Himanshu.

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