HTTP::Request (3pm)

 require HTTP::Request;
 $request = HTTP::Request->new(GET => 'http://www.example.com/');

and usually used like this:

$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new; $response = $ua->request($request);

\*(C`HTTP::Request\*(C' is a class encapsulating \s-1HTTP\s0 style requests, consisting of a request line, some headers, and a content body. Note that the \s-1LWP\s0 library uses \s-1HTTP\s0 style requests even for non-HTTP protocols. Instances of this class are usually passed to the request() method of an \*(C`LWP::UserAgent\*(C' object.

\*(C`HTTP::Request\*(C' is a subclass of \*(C`HTTP::Message\*(C' and therefore inherits its methods. The following additional methods are available: Constructs a new \*(C`HTTP::Request\*(C' object describing a request on the object $uri using method $method. The $method argument must be a string. The $uri argument can be either a string, or a reference to a \*(C`URI\*(C' object. The optional $header argument should be a reference to an \*(C`HTTP::Headers\*(C' object or a plain array reference of key/value pairs. The optional $content argument should be a string of bytes. This constructs a new request object by parsing the given string. This is used to get/set the method attribute. The method should be a short string like \*(L"\s-1GET\s0\*(R", \*(L"\s-1HEAD\s0\*(R", \*(L"\s-1PUT\s0\*(R" or \*(L"\s-1POST\s0\*(R". This is used to get/set the uri attribute. The $val can be a reference to a \s-1URI\s0 object or a plain string. If a string is given, then it should be parseable as an absolute \s-1URI\s0. This is used to get/set header values and it is inherited from \*(C`HTTP::Headers\*(C' via \*(C`HTTP::Message\*(C'. See HTTP::Headers for details and other similar methods that can be used to access the headers. This will set the \*(C`Accept-Encoding\*(C' header to the list of encodings that decoded_content() can decode. This is used to get/set the content and it is inherited from the \*(C`HTTP::Message\*(C' base class. See HTTP::Message for details and other methods that can be used to access the content. Note that the content should be a string of bytes. Strings in perl can contain characters outside the range of a byte. The \*(C`Encode\*(C' module can be used to turn such strings into a string of bytes. Method returning a textual representation of the request.

HTTP::Headers, HTTP::Message, HTTP::Request::Common, HTTP::Response

Copyright 1995-2004 Gisle Aas.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.