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NAME

Badger::URL - representation of a Uniform Resource Locator (URL)

SYNOPSIS

use Badger::URL;

# all-in-one URL string
my $url = Badger::URL->new(
    'http://abw@badgerpower.com:8080/under/ground?animal=badger#stripe'
);

# named parameters
my $url = Badger::URL->new(
    scheme      => 'http',
    user        => 'abw',
    host        => 'badgerpower.com',
    port        => '8080',
    path        => '/under/ground',
    query       => 'animal=badger',
    fragment    => 'stripe',
);

# methods to access standard W3C parts of URL
print $url->scheme;     # http
print $url->authority;  # abw@badgerpower.com:8080
print $url->user;       # abw
print $url->host;       # badgerpower.com
print $url->port;       # 8080
print $url->path;       # /under/ground
print $url->query;      # animal=badger
print $uri->fragment;   # stripe

# additional composite methods:
print $url->server;     
    # http://abw@badgerpower.com:8080

print $url->service;    
    # http://abw@badgerpower.com:8080/under/ground

print $url->request;    
    # http://abw@badgerpower.com:8080/under/ground?animal=badger

# method to return the whole URL
print $url->url();
    # http://abw@badgerpower.com:8080/under/ground?animal=badger#stripe

# overloaded stringification operator calls url() method
print $url;     
    # http://abw@badgerpower.com:8080/under/ground?animal=badger#stripe

DESCRIPTION

This module implements an object for representing URLs. It can parse existing URLs to break them down into their constituent parts, and also to generate new or modified URLs.

The emphasis is on simplicity and convenience for tasks related to web programming (e.g. dispatching web applications based on the URL, generating URLs for redirects or embedding as links in HTML pages). If you want more generic URI functionality then you should consider using the URI module.

A URL looks like this:

 http://abw@badgerpower.com:8080/under/ground?animal=badger#stripe
 \__/   \______________________/\___________/ \___________/ \____/
  |                |                  |             |          |
scheme         authority             path         query     fragment

The authority part can be broken down further:

abw@badgerpower.com:8080
\_/ \_____________/ \__/
 |         |         |
user      host      port

A Badger::URL object will parse a URL and store the component parts internally. You can then change any of the individual parts and regenerate the URL.

my $url = Badger::URL->new(
    'http://badgerpower.com/'
);
$url->port('8080');
$url->path('/under/ground');
$url->query('animal=badger');
print $url;   # http://badgerpower.com:8080/under/ground?animal=badger

METHODS

new($url)

This constructor method is used to create a new URL object.

my $url = Badger::URL->new(
    'http://abw@badgerpower.com:8080/under/ground?animal=badger#stripe'
);

You can also specify the individual parts of the URL using named paramters.

my $url = Badger::URL->new(
    scheme      => 'http',
    user        => 'abw',
    host        => 'badgerpower.com',
    port        => '8080',
    path        => '/under/ground',
    query       => 'animal=badger',
    fragment    => 'stripe',
);

url()

Method to return the complete URL.

print $url->url;
    # http://abw@badgerpower.com:8080/under/ground?animal=badger#stripe

This method is called automatically whenever the URL object is stringified.

print $url;                 # same as above

scheme()

Method to get or set the scheme part of the URL.

$url = Badger::URL->new('http://badgerpower.com/);
print $url->scheme();       # http
$url->scheme('ftp');
print $url->scheme();       # ftp

authority()

Method to get or set the authority part of the URL. This is comprised of a host with optional user and/or port.

  $url->authority('badgerpower.com');
  $url->authority('abw@badgerpower.com');
  $url->authority('badgerpower.com:8080');
  $url->authority('abw@badgerpower.com:8080');

  print $url->authority();    # abw@badgerpower.com:8080

user()

Method to get or set the optional user in the authority part of the URL.

$url->user('fred');
print $url->user();         # fred
print $url->authority();    # fred@badgerpower.com:8080

host()

Get or set the host in the authority part of the URL.

$url->host('example.org');
print $url->host();         # example.org
print $url->authority();    # fred@example.org:8080

port()

Get or set the port in the authority part of the URL.

$url->port(1234);
print $url->port();         # 1234
print $url->authority();    # fred@example.org:1234

path()

Get or set the path part of the URL.

$url->path('/right/here');
print $url->path();         # /right/here

query()

Get or set the query part of the URL. The leading '?' is not considered part of the query and should be should not be included when setting a new query.

$url->query('animal=ferret');
print $url->query();        # animal=ferret

fragment()

Get or set the fragment part of the URL. The leading '#' is not considered part of the fragment and should be should not be included when setting a new fragment.

$url->fragment('feet');
print $url->fragment();     # feet

server()

Returns a composite of the scheme and authority.

print $url->server();       
    # http://fred@example.org:1234

service()

Returns a composite of the server (scheme and authority) and path (in other words, everything up to the query or fragment).

print $url->server();       
    # http://fred@example.org:1234/right/here

request()

Returns a composite of the service (scheme, authority and path) and query (in other words, everything except the fragment).

print $url->request();       
    # http://fred@example.org:1234/right/here?animal=badger

AUTHOR

Andy Wardley http://wardley.org/

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001-2010 Andy Wardley. All Rights Reserved.

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

SEE ALSO

URI