OfficeLinebacker,
Have you seen WWW::Mechanize::Sleepy? Personally, I use something along the lines of:
# Sleep a random interval between $duration and 2 * $duration - 1 unit
sub rest {
my ($duration) = @_;
sleep $duration;
sleep rand($duration);
}
sub fetch_page {
my ($mech, $action, $target, $max, $duration) = @_;
for (1 .. $max) {
rest($duration);
eval {$mech->$action($target);};
return if ! $@ && $mech->status == OK;
}
die "Failed to fetch '$url' after '$max' attempts\n";
}
Of course, if you want to allow for HTTP redirects then you will need to change status == OK to include acceptable HTTP codes. Additionally, if you use Time::HiRes to overload sleep, you can easily sleep for partial minutes. In truth, I typically use milliseconds.
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