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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)

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

NAME

       HTTP::Message - Class encapsulating HTTP messages

SYNOPSIS

	package HTTP::Request;	# or HTTP::Response
	require HTTP::Message;
	@ISA=qw(HTTP::Message);

DESCRIPTION

       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:

       $mess = HTTP::Message->new
	   This is the object constructor.  It should only be called internally by this library.  External code should construct "HTTP::Request"
	   or "HTTP::Response" objects.

       $mess->clone()
	   Returns a copy of the object.

       $mess->protocol([$proto])
	   Sets the HTTP protocol used for the message.  The protocol() is a string like "HTTP/1.0" or "HTTP/1.1".

       $mess->content([$content])
	   The 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.

       $mess->add_content($data)
	   The add_content() methods appends more data to the end of the current content buffer.

       $mess->content_ref
	   The 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/foo/bar/g;

       $mess->headers;
	   Return the embedded HTTP::Headers object.

       $mess->headers_as_string([$endl])
	   Call the 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 HTTP::Headers 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

       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::Message(3)