Re: RFC HTTP::Cache module

>>>>> "Mattias" == Mattias Holmlund <u1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Mattias> I have written a perl module that I want to publish on
Mattias> CPAN. The module implements a cache for http requests.

The module that I've designed a half dozen times in my head but never
implemented would simply overload LWP::UserAgent's "simple_request"
method with one that did caching transparently.

Maybe if you thought about this enough, you could do that.  Then I
wouldn't have to finish writing the module that's in my head.

The advantage this has is that you could take *any* application that
ultimately uses LWP::UserAgent (and they pretty much all do, great job
Gisle!), and then mixin your module, and you'd get caching for free.
Such as:

        ## you add:
        use LWP::UserAgent::TransparentCache qw(cache => parameters);
        ## to this:
        use LWP::Simple;
        my $content = get("foo");

and it's done.  Or anything more complex.  And it'd still work.

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