NAME

IO::Lambda::HTTP - http requests lambda style

DESCRIPTION

The module exports a single condition http_request that accepts a HTTP::Request object and set of options as parameters. The condition returns either a HTTP::Response on success, or an error string otherwise.

SYNOPSIS

            

              
              
use HTTP::Request;
use IO::Lambda qw(:all);
use IO::Lambda::HTTP qw(http_request);
lambda {
   context shift;
   http_request {
      my $result = shift;
      if ( ref($result)) {
         print "good: ", length($result-> content), " bytes\n";
      } else {
         print "bad: $result\n";
      }
   }
}-> wait(
    HTTP::Request-> new( GET => "http://www.perl.com/")
);
            
          

API

http_request $HTTP::Request -> $HTTP::Response

http_request is a lambda condition that accepts HTTP::Request object in the context. Returns either a HTTP::Response object on success, or error string otherwise.

new $HTTP::Request :: () -> $HTTP::Response

See "new" in IO::Lambda::HTTP::Client

BUGS

Non-blocking connects, and hence the module, don't work on win32 on perl5.8.X due to under-implementation in ext/IO.xs. They do work on 5.10 however.

SEE ALSO

IO::Lambda::HTTP::Client

AUTHOR

Dmitry Karasik, <dmitry@karasik.eu.org>.