NAME

SCGI::Request

DESCRIPTION

This module implements the part of the SCGI protocol that reads the environment. All that remains after this is the content of the request. The protocol and this module guarentee that there will be a CONTENT_LENGTH for the body of the request in the environment.

SYNOPISIS

# $request got from SCGI
$request->read_env;

read $request->connection, my $body, $request->env->{CONTENT_LENGTH};

public methods

read_env

Read the environment in a blocking or non-blocking manner, per parameter to SCGI-new>. Returns true if it has finished.

env

Gets the environment for this request after it has been read. This will return undef until read_env or sysread_env has been called and returned true.

connection

Returns the open connection to the client.

close

Closes the connection.

blocking

Returns true if the connection is blocking.

set_blocking

If boolean argument is true turns on blocking, otherwise turns it off.

private methods

_new

Creates a new SCGI::Request. This is used by SCGI in the accept method, so if you are considering using this, use that instead.

_decode_env

Takes the encoded environment as a string and sets the env ready for access with env.

_set_env

Sets the environment for this request.

_blocking_read_env

Reads and decodes the environment in one go. Returns true on success, raises an exception on failiure.

AUTHOR

Thomas Yandell mailto:tom+scgi@vipercode.com

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2005, 2006 Viper Code Limited. All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This file is part of SCGI (perl SCGI library).

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