lib::HTTP::MessUser3Contributed Perl Documenlib::HTTP::Message(3)NAMEHTTP::Message - Class encapsulating HTTP messages
SYNOPSIS
package HTTP::Request; # or HTTP::Response
require HTTP::Message;
@ISA=qw(HTTP::Message);
DESCRIPTION
A 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.
METHODS
$mess = new HTTP::Message;
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 previous content.
$mess->content_ref
The content_ref() method will return a reference to
content string. It can be more efficient to access the
content this way if the content is huge, and it can be
used for direct manipulation of the content, for instance:
${$res->content_ref} =~ s/\bfoo\b/bar/g;
HEADER METHODS
All unknown HTTP::Message methods are delegated to the
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HTTP::Headers object that is part of every message. This
allows convenient access to these methods. Refer to the
HTTP::Headers manpage for details of these methods:
$mess->header($field => $val);
$mess->scan(&doit);
$mess->push_header($field => $val);
$mess->remove_header($field);
$mess->date;
$mess->expires;
$mess->if_modified_since;
$mess->last_modified;
$mess->content_type;
$mess->content_encoding;
$mess->content_length;
$mess->title;
$mess->user_agent;
$mess->server;
$mess->from;
$mess->referer;
$mess->www_authenticate;
$mess->authorization;
$mess->authorization_basic;
$mess->headers_as_string([$endl])
Call the HTTP::Headers->as_string() method for the headers
in the message.
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