On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 Kuce35_at_aol.com wrote:

> I'm going to be writing a script that is going to be accessing some url's
> and getting some text information and then linking to other urls on that
> page. I'm exploring ways of going about it and I stumbled upon curl and
> the LWP module. Can anybody give me any insight as to which one is
> easier/more robust or whether one has any advantages over the other.

I figure you shouldn't listen to me then, as I'm about as biased as you can
possibly get. :-)

I've written more scripts than I can count that fetched a web page,
scanned/parsed it and then presented the result. I've used curl for every
single one of them.

LWP is a fine package for all I know, but I haven't had to learn the details
since curl has solved my problems and left me with a simpler perl script.

Curl is robust, that's for sure.

-- 
  Daniel Stenberg -- curl project maintainer -- http://curl.haxx.se/