note davidrw [mod://WWW::Mechanize] is up to version 1.34 ... (if you really can't upgrade for whatever reason, you can try to subclass it yourself to add <c>update()</c> taken from the source of a newer version) <code> my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new(); $mech->get('.'); # to make it internall create request/response objects $mech->update_html($html); # then use normally </code> [mod://WWW::Mechanize::Cached] may be of interest as well 661757 661757