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lwp-request: A Perl-ish Way of Reading HTTP Headers
Recently we wrote about how much we love Lynx, the text-only Web browser. We like Lynx for its simplicity and its small footprint.
Another very small Web browser is LWP-Request. It ships with Perl's LWP library. So if you're using Perl for HTTP hacking already, you might have it installed...



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