Brian++ ! Also, you could ask LWP::Simple to *not* export get()or anything else.

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use LWP::Simple ();

You can then ask to get LWP::Simple's get() using:

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LWP::Simple::get(...);

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 4:47 AM, Brian E. Lozier <brian@massassi.com> wrote:

On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Mr. Puneet Kishor <punk.kish@gmail.com> wrote:

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There is perhaps another way, probably very simple, but I am drawing a blank. In my web app, I want to download the content at a few different URIs, strip them off the tags, and store the text for further processing. A simple command line script uses LWP::Simple to download the content, then HTTP::Strip removes the tags. This script works from the command line, But, within Dancer, I get a 'get is redefined' error. How can I implement such functionality within Dancer?

This is because LWP::Simple exports "get" and Dancer defines "get" as well. Two different functions with the same name can't be in the same namespace. LWP::Simple is a very simple layer around LWP::UserAgent. I recommend using LWP::UserAgent directly as it doesn't export a method called "get."

use LWP::UserAgent;

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();

$ua->agent("Some/string");

my $response = $ua->get($url_to_get);

my $content;

if($response->is_success()) { $content = $response->decoded_content(); } else { # no dice }

You could also try not to import LWP::Simple's get function and then use a fully qualified function call. I'm not sure this will work if the module wasn't programmed this way.

use LWP::Simple (); # Import nothing

my $content = LWP::Simple::get($url_to_get);

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