WWW::Me...nternals(3)

💅 WWW::Me...nternals(3) — the group chat tour 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to WWW::Me...nternals(3) ✨ this is the User Contributed Perl Documentation page that spills the whole object layout of WWW::Mechanize::Chrome — like, who talks to who, and what's riding on top of what. it's giving "family tree but make it daemons". no cap, it's short and it's iconic, so let's go 🦋

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✨ OBJECT LAYOUT ✨

here's the whole stack, literally, in its full ASCII glory. read it top to bottom like you're scrolling a text thread 💖

           +----------------------------------+
           | WWW::Mechanize::Chrome ("$mech") |
           +----------------------------------+
                 |
                 ->driver
                 +----------------------------------+
                 | Chrome::DevToolsProtocol::Target |
                 +----------------------------------+
                 |
                 ->transport
                 +-----------------------------+
                 | Chrome::DevToolsProtocol    |
                 +-----------------------------+
                 |
                 ->transport
                 +-----------------------------------------------+
                 | Chrome::DevToolsProtocol::Transport::Pipe     |
                 | Chrome::DevToolsProtocol::Transport::NetAsync |
                 | Chrome::DevToolsProtocol::Transport::AnyEvent |
                 | Chrome::DevToolsProtocol::Transport::Mojo     |
                 +-----------------------------------------------+
                 |
                 | (FD 3 and 4)
                 |
                 Chrome executable

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so let's break down this little stack, top to bottom, no skipping 🫶

• your WWW::Mechanize::Chrome object is the main character, and in the diagram it's the "$mech" variable. she's at the very top, as she should be 👑
• $mech has a ->driver — that's a Chrome::DevToolsProtocol::Target.
• the target has a ->transport, and that transport is a Chrome::DevToolsProtocol.
• which also has a ->transport — yeah, transport-ception, it's fine, we love a nested vibe 💀 — and that one is exactly one of these four: Chrome::DevToolsProtocol::Transport::Pipe, Chrome::DevToolsProtocol::Transport::NetAsync, Chrome::DevToolsProtocol::Transport::AnyEvent, or Chrome::DevToolsProtocol::Transport::Mojo.
• and underneath all of that, the bottom of the chain, is (FD 3 and 4) — that's the file descriptors it's riding on — talking to the Chrome executable itself. the actual browser. the final boss 🔥

ngl the way this page just shows you the whole pipeline and dips? respectful. no fluff, no filler, just the receipts 💅

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that's the whole page, bestie. WWW::Mechanize::Chrome::Internals — short, sweet, and honestly ate 🍓

that's a wrap from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, written up as perl v5.42.2, dated 2026-06-07 🎀 go forth and vibe check your transports, ily, bye 💖✨🧚