HTTP::Request - HTTP style request message
require HTTP::Request; $request = HTTP::Request->new(GET => 'http://www.example.com/');
and usually used like this:
$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new; $response = $ua->request($request);
HTTP::Request is a class encapsulating HTTP style requests, consisting of a request line, some headers, and a content body. Note that the LWP library uses HTTP style requests even for non-HTTP protocols. Instances of this class are usually passed to the request() method of an LWP::UserAgent object.
HTTP::Request
LWP::UserAgent
HTTP::Request is a subclass of HTTP::Message and therefore inherits its methods. The following additional methods are available:
HTTP::Message
Constructs a new HTTP::Request object describing a request on the object $uri using method $method. The $method argument must be a string. The $uri argument can be either a string, or a reference to a URI object. The optional $header argument should be a reference to an HTTP::Headers object or a plain array reference of key/value pairs. The optional $content argument should be a string of bytes.
URI
HTTP::Headers
This constructs a new request object by parsing the given string.
This is used to get/set the method attribute. The method should be a short string like "GET", "HEAD", "PUT" or "POST".
This is used to get/set the uri attribute. The $val can be a reference to a URI object or a plain string. If a string is given, then it should be parseable as an absolute URI.
This is used to get/set header values and it is inherited from HTTP::Headers via HTTP::Message. See HTTP::Headers for details and other similar methods that can be used to access the headers.
This is used to get/set the content and it is inherited from the HTTP::Message base class. See HTTP::Message for details and other methods that can be used to access the content.
Note that the content should be a string of bytes. Strings in perl can contain characters outside the range of a byte. The Encode module can be used to turn such strings into a string of bytes.
Encode
Method returning a textual representation of the request.
HTTP::Headers, HTTP::Message, HTTP::Request::Common, HTTP::Response
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