URL::Grab
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URL::Grab is a perl module that drastically simplifies the fetching of files.
It is designed to be used in programs that need common (but not necessarily
simple) url-fetching features. It is extremely simple to drop into an
existing program and provides a clean interface to protocol-independant
file-access. Best of all, URL::Grab takes care of all those pesky
file-fetching details, and lets you focus on whatever it is that your program
is written to do!
URL::Grab came into existence as the part of Config::YUM that downloads remote
yum-configs and header files, but it quickly became clear that this is a
general problem that many applications must deal with.
Yes, URL::Grab has been heavily inspired by the famous Python urlgrabber. :-)
INSTALLATION
To install this module type the following:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
DEPENDENCIES
This module requires these other modules and libraries:
require Carp;
require LWP::UserAgent;
COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
Copyright (C) 2006-2008 by Oliver Falk <
[email protected]>
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.0 or,
at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.
