I am totally new to POE, so this might be a silly question but I looked at the mailing list archive and the FAQ and didn't find the answer.
What I want to do is a parallel web client. For this I found a good recipe in the POE cookbook http://poe.perl.org/?POE_Cookbook/Web_Client The first example looked exactly like what I was looking for so I copied the code and only added a few more URLs to @url_list. Everything went fine, I got the web pages very fast but then after the real work was done (all pages displayed) I had to wait for another 5 seconds until the script ended. When I did this with the real pages I want to get (some JSON results) and a bit of Time::HiRes output the relation was 4 seconds for the actual work and then the 5 seconds delay until I could proceed. If I could speed this up to the 4 seconds needed for the actual work, everything would be fine and so much better than 9 seconds. How can I achieve this? Eventually I want to wrap this script into a method of my application, call it with a list of URLs and return the combined result. The application is a mod_perl web app. Are there any issues with this setup I should watch out for? Thanks -Michael
