1LWP::Debug(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation LWP::Debug(3)
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6 LWP::Debug - deprecated
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9 LWP::Debug used to provide tracing facilities, but these are not used
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14 One useful feature that LWP::Debug provided (in an imprecise and
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18 Network traffic monitoring
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