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

NAME

       HTTP::Request - HTTP style request message

SYNOPSIS

	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);

DESCRIPTION

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

       "HTTP::Request" is a subclass of "HTTP::Message" and therefore inherits its methods.  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 $method argument must be a
	   string.  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 or a plain array reference of key/value pairs.  The optional $content argument should be a
	   string of bytes.

       $r = HTTP::Request->parse( $str )
	   This constructs a new request object by parsing the given string.

       $r->method
       $r->method( $val )
	   This is used to get/set the method attribute.  The method should be a short string like "GET", "HEAD", "PUT" or "POST".

       $r->uri
       $r->uri( $val )
	   This is used to get/set the uri attribute.  The $val can be a reference to a URI object or a plain string.  If a string is given, then
	   it should be parseable as an absolute URI.

       $r->header( $field )
       $r->header( $field => $value )
	   This is used to get/set header values and it is inherited from "HTTP::Headers" via "HTTP::Message".	See HTTP::Headers for details and
	   other similar methods that can be used to access the headers.

       $r->accept_decodable
	   This will set the "Accept-Encoding" header to the list of encodings that decoded_content() can decode.

       $r->content
       $r->content( $bytes )
	   This is used to get/set the content and it is inherited from the "HTTP::Message" 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 "Encode"
	   module can be used to turn such strings into a string of bytes.

       $r->as_string
       $r->as_string( $eol )
	   Method returning a textual representation of the request.

SEE ALSO

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

COPYRIGHT

       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.

perl v5.12.1							    2009-06-15							  HTTP::Request(3)

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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)
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