NAME

       HTML::HTML5::Parser::UA - simple web user agent class

SYNOPSIS

        use aliased 'HTML::HTML5::Parser::UA';

        my $response = UA->get($url);
        die unless $response->{success};

        print $response->{decoded_content};

DESCRIPTION

       This is a simple wrapper around HTTP::Tiny and LWP::UserAgent to smooth out the API
       differences between them. It only supports bog standard "get($url)" requests.

       If LWP::UserAgent is already in memory, this module will use that.

       If LWP::UserAgent is not in memory, then this module will use HTTP::Tiny (or direct
       filesystem access for "file://" URLs).

       If LWP::UserAgent is not in memory, and you attempt to request a URL that HTTP::Tiny
       cannot handle (e.g. an "ftp://" URL), then this module will load LWP::UserAgent and die if
       it cannot be loaded (e.g. is not installed).

       HTML::HTML5::Parser::UA is used by the "parse_file" method of HTML::HTML5::Parser.

   Class Method
       "get($url, $ua)"
           Gets the URL and returns a hashref similar to HTTP::Tiny's hashrefs, but with an
           additional "decoded_content" key, which contains the response body, decoded into a
           Perl character string (not a byte string).

           If $ua is given (it's optional), then this user agent will be used to perform the
           actual request. Must be undef or an LWP::UserAgent object (or a subclass) or an
           HTTP::Tiny object (or a subclass).

   Package Variable
       $HTML::HTML5::Parser::NO_LWP
           If true, avoids using LWP::UserAgent.

MOTIVATION

       LWP::UserAgent is a good piece of software but it has a dependency on HTML::Parser.
       HTML::Parser is only used to provide one fairly esoteric feature, which this package
       doesn't make use of. (It's the "parse_head" option.)

       Because of that, I don't especially want HTML::HTML5::Parser to have a dependency on
       LWP::UserAgent. Hence this module.

SEE ALSO

       HTML::HTML5::Parser.

AUTHOR

       Toby Inkster, <tobyink@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       Copyright (C) 2012 by Toby Inkster

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
       terms as Perl itself.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

       THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING,
       WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
       PURPOSE.