[Siegfried Heintze] I've been using HTML::Parser with MySQL and I've had a lot of problems with (both RAM and disk) memory leaks and multi-threading. I was really disappointed, for example, discover that having multiple threads did not really speed things up at all. I wonder if HTML::Parser is not multi-threaded and blocks all my threads when there is a single outstanding socket READ in progress?
I specifically chose DBI and MySQL so I could have multiple database operations going concurrently. HTML::Parser does not seem to do form submission either. Well, I'm writing another scraper and thought I would experiment with some different packages. I looked at WWW::Mechanize and it does form submission but it only appears to follow links. I could not find any functions for fetching and parsing the HTML. I get a lot of matches on CPAN when I search for WWW. Can anyone recommend some alternatives to HTML::Parser I could experiment with? Thanks, Siegfried -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
