1WWW::Mechanize::GZip(3)User Contributed Perl DocumentatioWnWW::Mechanize::GZip(3)
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6 WWW::Mechanize::GZip - tries to fetch webpages with gzip-compression
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9 Version 0.14
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12 use WWW::Mechanize::GZip;
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14 my $mech = WWW::Mechanize::GZip->new();
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17 print "x-content-length (before unzip) = ", $response->header('x-content-length');
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21 The WWW::Mechanize::GZip module tries to fetch a URL by requesting
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24 If the response contains a header with 'Content-Encoding: gzip', it
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28 This module will help to reduce bandwidth fetching webpages, if
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32 This modules is a direct subclass of WWW::Mechanize and will therefore
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35 The decompression is handled by Compress::Zlib::memGunzip.
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52 Peter Giessner "cardb@planet-elektronik.de"
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55 Copyright (c) 2007, Peter Giessner "cardb@planet-elektronik.de". All
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58 This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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63perl v5.30.1 2020-01-30 WWW::Mechanize::GZip(3)