HTTP::RangeSaver - handle partial content HTTP responses
use LWP; use HTTP::RangeSaver; open(my $fh,'+<','example.mpeg') || die $!; my $req=new HTTP::Request (GET => 'http://www.example.com/example.mpeg'); $req->header(Range => 'bytes='.(-s $fh).'-'); my $saver=new HTTP::RangeSaver($fh); my $ua=new LWP::UserAgent; my $resp=$ua->request($req,$saver->get_callback());
HTTP::RangeSaver is a helper class for updating an existing file with data from a partial content HTTP response. It understands both of the partial content formats defined in RFC 2616 (a single Content-Range header or a multipart/byteranges Content-Type). For convenience, it also handles complete content HTTP responses (status 200 or 203 rather than 206).
$fh is an open filehandle. It must allow seeking and writing.
%options is a list of key/value pairs for modifying the saver's behaviour.
Pass a true value to make the saver truncate the file to match the full length of the returned entity. Ignored if the server doesn't report a definite length.
Pass a true value to make the saver die if the server doesn't report a definite full length for the returned entity.
Pass a true value to make the saver die if the server returns a complete entity rather than a partial one.
Pass a true value to make the saver die if the server returns an entity that doesn't represent the requested resource (i.e. a 2xx status code other than 200, 203, or 206). This should never happen for a GET request.
A adjustment to be applied to all file offsets in the destination file.
Returns a closure suitable for passing as the callback function argument to LWP::UserAgent's request methods.
Call this method from your callback function if you want to do more than just save the incoming data (e.g. display a progress indicator).
Returns the total length of the returned entity, or an undefined value if the length is indefinite (or hasn't arrived yet).
Returns the MIME type of the returned entity, from either the Content-Type header of the response or the first part header of a multipart response. Returns undef if this information hasn't arrived yet.
Returns the total number of bytes written by the saver (so far). Useful for displaying a simple progress indicator.
Returns a reference to an array of ranges written by the saver (so far). Each range is represented by a reference to a two-element array containing the first and last byte numbers (ignoring the delta parameter) with the same semantics as in the HTTP protocol. Useful for displaying a complex progress indicator.
Returns a reference to an array of HTTP::Headers objects, one for each part (seen so far) of a multipart response.
Returns true if the saver hasn't seen a complete response yet.
Bo Lindbergh <blgl@stacken.kth.se>
Copyright 2006 by Bo Lindbergh
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.
To install HTTP::RangeSaver, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm HTTP::RangeSaver
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install HTTP::RangeSaver
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.