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suggestion: put it on annocpan (Score:1)

by thinc (3788)

if you put it on annocpan, it might get included in the docs where everyone can feel the love:

http://www.annocpan.org/dist/WWW-Mechanize-1.18/lib/WWW/Mechanize.pm [annocpan.org]
- Re:suggestion: put it on annocpan (Score:1)
  
  by mpeters (5802)
  
  Excellent idea and it has been added - http://www.annocpan.org/~PETDANCE/WWW-Mechanize-1.18/lib/WWW/Mechanize.pm#221 [annocpan.org]
Mech is a little weak in general (Score:1)

by Alias (5735)

I've found Mech to be fairly innocent in a number of different ways.

In the end, I wrote my own web automation layer that is capable of running under "combat conditions" (broken HTML, crazy evil anti-scraping techniques, sites that change the page layout regularly etc).
- Re:Mech is a little weak in general (Score:1)
  
  by pemungkah (3)
  
  Have you released it? I'm definitely interested.
Thanks (Score:1)

by pemungkah (3)

Good info. Thanks.

I'll check AnnoCPAN for others. Would make a nice Util plugin for WWW::Mechanize::Pluggable.

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