NAME

HTTP::Tiny - A tiny HTTP client

VERSION

version 0.002

SYNOPSIS

    use HTTP::Tiny;

    my $response = HTTP::Tiny->new->get('http://example.com/');

    print "$response->{status} $response->{reason}\n";

    while (my ($k, $v) = each %{$response->{headers}}) {
        for (ref $v eq 'ARRAY' ? @$v : $v) {
            print "$k: $_\n";
        }
    }

    print $response->{content} if defined $response->{content};

DESCRIPTION

This is a very simple HTTP/1.1 client, designed primarily for doing simple GET requests without the overhead of a large framework like LWP::UserAgent.

It is more correct and more complete than HTTP::Lite. It supports proxies (currently only non-authenticating ones) and redirection. It also correctly resumes after EINTR.

Additional documentation and improved tests will be forthcoming.

METHODS

new

    $http = HTTP::Tiny->new( %attributes );

This constructor returns a new HTTP::Tiny object. Valid attributes include:

• agent

  A user-agent string (defaults to 'HTTP::Tiny/$VERSION')

• default_headers

  A hashref of default headers to apply to requests

• max_redirect

  Maximum number of redirects allowed (defaults to 5)

• max_size

  Maximum response size (only when not using a data callback)

• proxy

  URL of a proxy server to use

• timeout

  Request timeout in seconds (default is 60)

get

    $response = $http->get($url);
    $response = $http->get($url, \%options);

Executes a GET request for the given URL. Internally, it just calls request() with 'GET' as the method. See request() for valid options and a description of the response.

request

    $response = $http->request($method, $url);
    $response = $http->request($method, $url, \%options);

Executes an HTTP request of the given method type ('GET', 'HEAD', 'PUT', etc.) on the given URL. A hashref of options may be appended to modify the request.

Valid options are:

• headers

  A hashref containing headers to include with the request

• content

  A scalar to include as the body of the request OR a code reference that will be called iteratively to produce the body of the response

• data_callback

  A code reference that will be called with chunks of the response body

[XXX describe how callbacks work]

The response method returns a hashref containing the response. The hashref will have the following keys:

• status

  The HTTP status code of the response

• reason

  The response phrase returned by the server

• content

  The body of the response. If the response does not have any content or if a data callback is provided to consume the response body, this will be the empty string

• headers

  A hashref of header fields. All header field names will be normalized to be lower case. If a header is repeated, the value will be an arrayref; it will otherwise be a scalar string containing the value

On an exception during the execution of the request, the status field will contain 599, and the content field will contain the text of the exception.

AUTHORS

• Christian Hansen <chansen@cpan.org>

• David Golden <dagolden@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2010 by Christian Hansen.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

cpanm HTTP::Tiny

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install HTTP::Tiny