NAME
HTTP::Message - Class encapsulating HTTP messages
DESCRIPTION
A HTTP::Message
object contains some headers and a content (body). The class is only used as a base class for HTTP::Request
and HTTP::Response
, and are never instantiated alone.
METHODS
$mess = new HTTP::Message;
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.
$mess->content([$content])
$mess->add_content($data)
These methods manages the content of the message. 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.
The add_content() methods appends data to the content.
HEADER METHODS
All unknown HTTP::Message
methods are delegated to the HTTP::Headers
object that is part of every message. This allows convenient access to these methods. Refer to HTTP::Headers 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.