HTTP::Message - Class encapsulating HTTP messages |
HTTP::Message - Class encapsulating HTTP messages
package HTTP::Request; # or HTTP::Response require HTTP::Message; @ISA=qw(HTTP::Message);
An HTTP::Message
object contains some headers and a content (body).
The class is abstract, i.e. it only used as a base class for
HTTP::Request
and HTTP::Response
and should never instantiated
as itself.
The following methods are available:
HTTP::Request
or
HTTP::Response
objects.
clone()
protocol([$proto])
protocol()
is a string
like HTTP/1.0
or HTTP/1.1
.
content([$content])
content()
method sets the content if an argument is given. If no
argument is given the content is not touched. In either case the
previous content is returned.
add_content($data)
add_content()
methods appends more data to the end of the current
content buffer.
content_ref()
method will return a reference to content buffer string.
It can be more efficient to access the content this way if the content
is huge, and it can even be used for direct manipulation of the content,
for instance:
${$res->content_ref} =~ s/\bfoo\b/bar/g;
headers_as_string([$endl])
as_string()
method for the headers in the
message. This will be the same as:
$mess->headers->as_string
but it will make your program a whole character shorter :-)
All unknown HTTP::Message
methods are delegated to the
HTTP::Headers
object that is part of every message. This allows
convenient access to these methods. Refer to the HTTP::Headers manpage for
details of these methods:
$mess->header($field => $val); $mess->push_header($field => $val); $mess->init_header($field => $val); $mess->remove_header($field); $mess->scan(\&doit);
$mess->date; $mess->expires; $mess->if_modified_since; $mess->if_unmodified_since; $mess->last_modified; $mess->content_type; $mess->content_encoding; $mess->content_length; $mess->content_language $mess->title; $mess->user_agent; $mess->server; $mess->from; $mess->referer; $mess->www_authenticate; $mess->authorization; $mess->proxy_authorization; $mess->authorization_basic; $mess->proxy_authorization_basic;
Copyright 1995-2001 Gisle Aas.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
HTTP::Message - Class encapsulating HTTP messages |