SYNOPSIS

  use LWP::Simple qw(get);
  my $server = Test::HTTP::LocalServer->spawn;

  ok get $server->url, "Retrieve " . $server->url;

  $server->stop;

METHODS

Test::HTTP::LocalServer->spawn %ARGS

This spawns a new HTTP server. The server will stay running until $server->stop is called.

Valid arguments are:

• html => scalar containing the page to be served

• file => filename containing the page to be served

• debug => 1 to make the spawned server output debug information

• eval => string that will get evaluated per request in the server

  Try to avoid characters that are special to the shell, especially quotes. A good idea for a slow server would be

    eval => sleep+10

All served HTML will have the first %s replaced by the current location.

The following entries will be removed from %ENV:

    HTTP_PROXY
    http_proxy
    CGI_HTTP_PROXY

$server->port

This returns the port of the current server. As new instances will most likely run under a different port, this is convenient if you need to compare results from two runs.

$server->url

This returns the url where you can contact the server. This url is valid until the $server goes out of scope or you call $server->stop or $server->get_log.

$server->stop

This stops the server process by requesting a special url.

$server->kill

This kills the server process via kill. The log cannot be retrieved then.

$server->get_log

This stops the server by calling stop and then returns the output of the server process. This output will be a list of all requests made to the server concatenated together as a string.

URLs implemented by the server

302 redirect $server->redirect($target)

This URL will issue a redirect to $target. No special care is taken towards URL-decoding $target as not to complicate the server code. You need to be wary about issuing requests with escaped URL parameters.

404 error $server->error_notfound($target)

This URL will response with status code 404.

Timeout $server->error_timeout($seconds)

This URL will send a 599 error after $seconds seconds.

Timeout+close $server->error_close($seconds)

This URL will send nothing and close the connection after $seconds seconds.

Error in response content $server->error_after_headers

This URL will send headers for a successfull response but will close the socket with an error after 2 blocks of 16 spaces have been sent.

Chunked response $server->chunked

This URL will return 5 blocks of 16 spaces at a rate of one block per second in a chunked response.

Other URLs

All other URLs will echo back the cookies and query parameters.

EXPORT

None by default.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

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

Copyright (C) 2003-2011 Max Maischein

AUTHOR

Max Maischein, <corion@cpan.org>

Please contact me if you find bugs or otherwise improve the module. More tests are also very welcome !

SEE ALSO

WWW::Mechanize,WWW::Mechanize::Shell,WWW::Mechanize::Firefox

cpanm WWW::Mechanize

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install WWW::Mechanize