Ubuntu Manpage: Arch::LiteWeb - simple way to access web pages

NAME

       Arch::LiteWeb - simple way to access web pages

SYNOPSIS

           my $web = Arch::LiteWeb->new;
           my $content = $web->get("http://some.domain:81/some/path");
           die $web->error . " while processing " . $web->request_url
               unless $content;
           my $content_type = $web->response_headers->{content_type};

DESCRIPTION

       This class provides a basic and easy to use support for the client-side HTTP.  It is supplied in order to
       avoid dependency on LWP. If such dependency is not a problem, consider to use LWP instead that provides
       much better support for HTTP and other protocols.

METHODS

The following class methods are available:

get, post, request_url, error, error_with_url, network_error, response_code, response_codestr,
response_error, response_headers, response_content.

get url [params ...]
Execute HTTP get of the given url and return the html string or undef on network/response error. Use
other methods to get the details about the error and the response.

params is key-value hash, the following keys are supported:

url_host - only used if url is none
url_port - only used if url is none (80)
url_path - only used if url is none
endl - default is "\015\012"
timeout - default is 20 seconds
user_agent - default is "Arch::LiteWeb/0.1"
nocache - add a no-cache header
noredirect - don't follow redirect responses
max_redirect_depth - default is 5
use_proxy - default is false
proxy_url - proxy url ($http_proxy supported too)
proxy_host - only used if proxy_url is none
proxy_port - only used if proxy_url is none (80)

post url input [params]
Not implemented yet.

request_url
Actual url of the last issued request or undef. If partial redirect responses are enabled, then the
result is the last (non-redirect) url.

error
If the last request resulted in error (i.e. get/post returned undef), then this method returns the
error message, otherwise it returns undef. This is just a shortcut for network_error ||
response_error.

error_with_url
Like error, but with "\nwhile fetching request_url\n" text appended if non undef.

network_error
The network error message for the last request or undef.

response_error
The response error message for the last request or undef.

response_code
The last response code (integer) or undef.

response_codestr
The last response code (string) or undef.

response_headers
The last response headers (hashref of HTTP headers) or undef.

response_content
The last response content or undef. This is the same thing that the last get/post returns.

BUGS

       Not intended for use in mission-critical applications.

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