HTTP::Body(3pm) 					User Contributed Perl Documentation					   HTTP::Body(3pm)

NAME

       HTTP::Body - HTTP Body Parser

SYNOPSIS

	   use HTTP::Body;

	   sub handler : method {
	       my ( $class, $r ) = @_;

	       my $content_type   = $r->headers_in->get('Content-Type');
	       my $content_length = $r->headers_in->get('Content-Length');

	       my $body   = HTTP::Body->new( $content_type, $content_length );
	       my $length = $content_length;

	       while ( $length ) {

		   $r->read( my $buffer, ( $length < 8192 ) ? $length : 8192 );

		   $length -= length($buffer);

		   $body->add($buffer);
	       }

	       my $uploads     = $body->upload;     # hashref
	       my $params      = $body->param;	    # hashref
	       my $param_order = $body->param_order # arrayref
	       my $body        = $body->body;	    # IO::Handle
	   }

DESCRIPTION

       HTTP::Body parses chunks of HTTP POST data and supports application/octet-stream, application/x-www-form-urlencoded, and
       multipart/form-data.

       Chunked bodies are supported by not passing a length value to new().

       It is currently used by Catalyst to parse POST bodies.

NOTES

       When parsing multipart bodies, temporary files are created to store any uploaded files.	You must delete these temporary files yourself
       after processing them, or set $body->cleanup(1) to automatically delete them at DESTROY-time.

METHODS

       new Constructor. Takes content type and content length as parameters, returns a HTTP::Body object.

       add Add string to internal buffer. Will call spin unless done. returns length before adding self.

       body
	   accessor for the body.

       chunked
	   Returns 1 if the request is chunked.

       cleanup
	   Set to 1 to enable automatic deletion of temporary files at DESTROY-time.

       content_length
	   Returns the content-length for the body data if known.  Returns -1 if the request is chunked.

       content_type
	   Returns the content-type of the body data.

       init
	   return self.

       length
	   Returns the total length of data we expect to read if known.  In the case of a chunked request, returns the amount of data read so far.

       trailing_headers
	   If a chunked request body had trailing headers, trailing_headers will return an HTTP::Headers object populated with those headers.

       spin
	   Abstract method to spin the io handle.

       state
	   Returns the current state of the parser.

       param
	   Get/set body parameters.

       upload
	   Get/set file uploads.

       tmpdir
	   Specify a different path for temporary files.  Defaults to the system temporary path.

       param_order
	   Returns the array ref of the param keys in the order how they appeared on the body

SUPPORT

       Since its original creation this module has been taken over by the Catalyst development team. If you want to contribute patches, these will
       be your primary contact points:

       IRC:

	   Join #catalyst-dev on irc.perl.org.

       Mailing Lists:

	   http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst-dev

AUTHOR

       Christian Hansen, "chansen@cpan.org"

       Sebastian Riedel, "sri@cpan.org"

       Andy Grundman, "andy@hybridized.org"

CONTRIBUTORS

       Simon Elliott "cpan@papercreatures.com"

       Kent Fredric <kentnl@cpan.org>

       Christian Walde

       Torsten Raudssus <torsten@raudssus.de>

LICENSE

       This library is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as perl itself.

perl v5.14.2							    2010-10-26							   HTTP::Body(3pm)