NAME

WWW::Mechanize::Sleepy - A Sleepy Mechanize Agent

SYNOPSIS

    use WWW::Mechanize::Sleepy;
   
    # sleep 5 seconds between requests
    my $a = WWW::Mechanize::Sleepy->new( sleep => 5 );
    $a->get( 'http://www.cpan.org' );

    # sleep between 5 and 20 seconds between requests
    my $a = WWW::Mechanize::Sleepy->new( sleep => '5..20' );
    $a->get( 'http://www.cpan.org' );

    # don't sleep at all
    my $a = WWW::Mechanize::Sleepy->new();
    $a->get( 'http://www.cpan.org' );

DESCRIPTION

Sometimes when testing the behavior of a webserver it is important to be able to space out your requests in order to simulate a person reading, thinking (or sleeping) at the keyboard.

WWW::Mechanize::Sleepy subclasses WWW::Mechanize to provide pauses between your server requests. Use it just like you would use WWW::Mechanize.

METHODS

All the methods are the same as WWW::Mechanize, except for the constructor which accepts an additional parameter.

new()

The constructor which acts just like the WWW::Mechanize constructor except you can pass it an extra parameter.

• sleep

  An amount of time in seconds to sleep.

      my $a = WWW::Mechanize::Sleepy->new( sleep => 5 );

  Or a range of time to sleep within. Your robot will sleep a random amount of time within that range.

      my $a = WWW::Mechanize::Sleepy->new( sleep => '5..20' );

  If you would like to have a non sleeping WWW::Mechanize object, you can simply not pass in the sleep paramter.

      my $a = WWW::Mechanize::Sleepy->new();

Note: since WWW::Mechanize::Sleepy subclasses WWW::Mechanize, which subclasses LWP::UserAgent, you can pass in LWP::UserAgent::new() options to WWW::Mechanize::Sleepy::new().

    my $a = WWW::Mechanize::Sleepy->new( 
        agent       => 'foobar agent',
        timeout     => 100
    );

sleep()

If you want to get or set your object's sleep value on the fly use sleep().

   my $a = WWW::Mechanize::Sleepy->new( sleep => '1..3' );
   ...
   print "currently sleeping ", $a->sleep(), " seconds\n";
   $a->sleep( '4..6' );

If you want to make your WWW::Mechanize::Sleepy object no longer sleepy just set to 0.

    $a->sleep( 0 );

AUTHOR/MAINTAINER

WWW::Mechanize::Sleepy was originally written in 2003 by Ed Summers (ehs@pobox.com). Since version 0.7 (September 2010) it has been maintained by Kostas Ntonas (kntonas@gmail.com).

SEE ALSO

• WWW::Mechanize

LICENSE

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.