i realize that some external modules might include some of the features i want, but i suspect it is more server-efficient to include that top_ancestor attribute than it would be to keep requesting parents until you find the root of the thread.

but that aside, node_id=37150 doesn't seem to work for me from LWP. it works from in my browser, but i'm trying to write it into a script, and it seems to not be working, and i can't find any better documentation on it than what i wrote above.

lwp-request 'http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=30175'
# this works and gives me the newest nodes, as expected.
lwp-request 'http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=30175&nodes=819
+21'
# also works; jsut testing that lwp-request accepts an ampersand.
lwp-request 'http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=37149'
# gives me a big pile of perlmonks page.
lwp-request 'http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=37151'
# also gives me a big pile of perlmonks page
lwp-request 'http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=37150'
# gives me a newline.
lwp-request 'http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=37150&nodes=819
+21'
# also gives me a newline
[download]

ZZamboni, is there a trick to this node that you know and i don't?

update: ah, that's it! I thought I tested that, but apparently my browser decided to give me a cached copy. sleep well, vroom.