Hi there! I'm very new to the perl scene so perhaps it is my ignorance that led to the 
problem that has prompted my suggestion but I thought I'd drop you a line just in case 
an improvement can be made. I bought Clinton Wong's "Web Client Programming" book 
published by O'Reilly and tried to get some of the simple examples on pages 88-92 
working. I installed libwww-perl and the recommended prerequisites listed in the 
README for libwww-perl. The README recommends the following prerequisites:

URI, MIME-Base64, HTML-Parser, libnet and Digest::MD5 (should the last one read 
Digest-MD5?)

After all this, the first and simplest example, geturl, still didn't work. That made 
me very sad. After a few hours, I found out that I only needed to install the 
following packages:

HTML-Tree and HTML-Format

I just thought that I'd mention it in case some documentation somewhere can be updated 
so other people can avoid problems like this in future.

Besides, that, though, I think Clinton's book is fantastic. It has been really helpful.

Thanks heaps,
Mark Brown.

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