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HTTP-Async (0.07)

I've just found myself with a list of 12000 URLs to retrieve. I remembered the slowness of fetching a few hundred using LWP, and I remembered messing with POE and finding it too much like hard work.

I also remembered a lightning talk at YAPC::Europe about HTTP::Async. The talk made the module look easy to use and fast. After a quick scan through the module's documentation, I'm using its Polite subclass and happily downloading the URLs at a fair rate.

The module's interface extends LWP, which I already know, and it's making my slow ADSL connection and old laptop feel even more antiquated than usual. HTTP::Async does its job well: parallelisation without having to think.

Tom Hukins - 2007-03-09 04:21:30
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