POE::Component::Client::Ident(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation			POE::Component::Client::Ident(3pm)

NAME

       POE::Component::Client::Ident - A component that provides non-blocking ident lookups to your sessions.

SYNOPSIS

	  use POE::Component::Client::Ident;

	  my $poco_obj = POE::Component::Client::Ident->spawn ( 'Ident-Client' );

	  $kernel->post ( 'Ident-Client' => query => Socket => $socket );

	  $kernel->post ( 'Ident-Client' => query => PeerAddr => '10.0.0.1',
						     PeerPort => 2345,
						     SockAddr => '192.168.1.254',
						     SockPort => 6669,
						     BuggyIdentd => 1,
						     TimeOut => 30 );

DESCRIPTION

       POE::Component::Client::Ident is a POE component that provides non-blocking Ident lookup services to other components and sessions. The
       Ident protocol is described in RFC 1413 <http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1413.html>.

       The component takes requests in the form of events, spawns POE::Component::Client::Ident::Agent sessions to perform the Ident queries and
       returns the appropriate responses to the requesting session.

CONSTRUCTOR

       spawn
	   Takes one argument, a kernel alias to christen the new component with.

	   Returns an object.

METHODS

       These methods are available on the poco object returned by spawn().

       session_id
	   Returns the component's session ID.

       shutdown
	   Takes no arguments. Causes the component to terminate gracefully. Any pending Ident::Agent components that are running will be closed
	   without returning events.

INPUT

       The component accepts the following events:

       query
	   Takes either the arguments:

	     "PeerAddr", the remote IP address where a TCP connection has originated;
	     "PeerPort", the port where the TCP has originated from;
	     "SockAddr", the address of our end of the connection;
	     "SockPort", the port of our end of the connection;

	   OR:

	     "Socket", the socket handle of the connection, the component will work out all
	     the details for you. If Socket is defined, it will override the settings of the
	     other arguments.

	   See the documentation for Ident-Agent for extra parameters you may pass.

       shutdown
	   Takes no arguments. Causes the component to terminate gracefully. Any pending Ident::Agent components that are running will be closed
	   without returning events.

OUTPUT

       The events you can expect to receive having submitted a 'query'.

       All the events returned by the component have a hashref as ARG0. This hashref contains the arguments that were passed to the component. If
       a socket handle was passed, the hashref will contain the appropriate PeerAddr, PeerPort, SockAddr and Sock Port.

       ident_client_reply
	   Returned when the component receives a USERID response from the identd. ARG0 is hashref, ARG1 is the opsys field and ARG2 is the userid
	   or something else depending on whether the opsys field is set to 'OTHER' ( Don't blame me, read the RFC ).

       ident_client_error
	   Returned when the component receives an ERROR response from the identd, there was some sort of communication error with the remote host
	   ( ie. no identd running ) or it had some other problem with making the connection to the other host. No matter.  ARG0 is hashref, ARG1
	   is the type of error.

AUTHOR

       Chris Williams, <chris@bingosnet.co.uk<gt>

SEE ALSO

       RFC 1413 <http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1413.html>

       POE::Component::Client::Ident::Agent

perl v5.8.8							    2007-10-31					POE::Component::Client::Ident(3pm)