package HTTP::Request; # or HTTP::Response require HTTP::Message; @ISA=qw(HTTP::Message);
HTTP::Message
object contains some headers and a content (body). The class is abstract,
i.e. it only used as a base class for
HTTP::Request
and HTTP::Response
and should never instantiated as itself.
HTTP::Request
or
HTTP::Response
objects.
protocol()
is a string like
``HTTP/1.0'' or
``HTTP/1.1''.
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.
add_content()
methods appends more data to the end of the
previous content.
content_ref()
method will return a reference to content
string. It can be more efficient to access the content this way if the
content is huge, and it can be used for direct manipulation of the content,
for instance:
${$res->content_ref} =~ s/\bfoo\b/bar/g;
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 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;