Hi all,

I have never used HTTP feature before, but finally I have used it to 
check's Bryan's problem with swishspider (read previous posts). 

I have noticed that this option is slow. I am wondering why. As you 
know, an external perl program is called for getting each page from 
the server. Obviously, each time swishspider is called, a perl 
interpreter must to be loaded in memory. It also needs to load the 
program and the required modules. The install of the required perl 
modules is also tedious (Digest-MD5, libnet, libwww-perl, HTML-
Parser, HTML-Tagset, MIME-Base64, URI) or perhaps I did not it 
correctly.
I am wondering if there is a way to avoid the use of  swishspider. I 
saw a reference to libwww in the discussion list (from Mark Gaulin). I 
do not know if the effort worths it. 

Any comments?

cu
Jose