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WWW::Curl is a thin binding on top of libcurl, to make using libcurl
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possible from Perl land. Because of this, the module is less like Perl
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and more like C in coding style.
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There is a new module, http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?WWW::Curl::Simple,
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which wraps this module into a more Perlish and userfriendly package.
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The standard Perl WWW module, LWP should probably be used in most cases
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to work with HTTP or FTP from Perl. However, there are some cases where
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LWP doesn't perform well. One is speed and the other is parallelism.
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WWW::Curl is much faster, uses much less CPU cycles and it's capable of
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non-blocking parallel requests.
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In some cases, for example when building a web crawler, cpu usage and
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parallel downloads are important considerations. It can be desirable to
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use WWW::Curl to do the heavy-lifting of a large number of downloads and
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wrap the resulting data into a Perl-friendly structure by HTTP::Response
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or use WWW::Curl::Simple to do that for you.
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