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HTTP::Request::Params(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				HTTP::Request::Params(3pm)

NAME

       HTTP::Request::Params - Retrieve GET/POST Parameters from HTTP Requests

SYNOPSIS

	 use HTTP::Request::Params;

	 my $http_request = read_request();
	 my $parse_params = HTTP::Request::Params->new({
			      req => $http_request,
			    });
	 my $params	  = $parse_params->params;

DESCRIPTION

       This software does all the dirty work of parsing HTTP Requests to find incoming query parameters.

   new
	 my $parser = HTTP::Request::Params->new({
			 req => $http_request,
		      });

       "req" - This required argument is either an "HTTP::Request" object or a string containing an entier HTTP Request.

       Incoming query parameters come from two places. The first place is the "query" portion of the URL. Second is the content portion of an HTTP
       request as is the case when parsing a POST request, for example.

   params
	 my $params = $parser->params;

       Returns a hash reference containing all the parameters. The keys in this hash are the names of the parameters. Values are the values
       associated with those parameters in the incoming query. For parameters with multiple values, the value in this hash will be a list
       reference. This is the same behaviour as the "CGI" module's "Vars()" function.

   req
	 my $req_object = $parser->req;

       Returns the "HTTP::Request" object.

   mime
	 my $mime_object = $parser->mime;

       Returns the "Email::MIME" object.

       Now, you may be wondering why we're dealing with an "Email::MIME" object.  The answer is simple. It's an amazing parser for MIME compliant
       messages, and RFC 822 compliant messages. When parsing incoming POST data, especially file uploads, "Email::MIME" is the perfect fit. It's
       fast and light.

SEE ALSO

       "HTTP::Daemon", HTTP::Request, Email::MIME, CGI, perl.

AUTHOR

       Casey West, <casey@geeknest.com>.

COPYRIGHT

	 Copyright (c) 2005 Casey West.  All rights reserved.
	 This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
	 under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.10.1							    2005-01-12						HTTP::Request::Params(3pm)

HTTP::Request(3)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					  HTTP::Request(3)

NAME

       HTTP::Request - Class encapsulating HTTP Requests

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

       "HTTP::Request" is a class encapsulating HTTP style requests, consisting of a request line, some headers, and some (potentially empty) con-
       tent. Note that the LWP library also uses this HTTP style requests for non-HTTP protocols.

       Instances of this class are usually passed to the "request()" method of an "LWP::UserAgent" object:

	$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
	$request = HTTP::Request->new(GET => 'http://www.oslo.net/');
	$response = $ua->request($request);

       "HTTP::Request" is a subclass of "HTTP::Message" and therefore inherits its methods.  The inherited methods most often used are header(),
       push_header(), remove_header(), and content(). See HTTP::Message for details.

       The following additional methods are available:

       $r = HTTP::Request->new($method, $uri)
       $r = HTTP::Request->new($method, $uri, $header)
       $r = HTTP::Request->new($method, $uri, $header, $content)
	   Constructs a new "HTTP::Request" object describing a request on the object $uri using method $method.  The $uri argument can be either
	   a string, or a reference to a "URI" object.	The optional $header argument should be a reference to an "HTTP::Headers" object.  The
	   optional $content argument should be a string.

       $r->method([$val])
       $r->uri([$val])
	   These methods provide public access to the attributes containing respectively the method of the request and the URI object of the
	   request.

	   If an argument is given the attribute is given that as its new value. If no argument is given the value is not touched. In either case
	   the previous value is returned.

	   The method() method argument should be a string.

	   The uri() method accept both a reference to a URI object and a string as its argument.  If a string is given, then it should be
	   parseable as an absolute URI.

       $r->as_string()
	   Method returning a textual representation of the request.  Mainly useful for debugging purposes. It takes no arguments.

SEE ALSO

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

COPYRIGHT

       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.

libwww-perl-5.65						    2001-11-15							  HTTP::Request(3)