NAME
XAS::Lib::Curl::HTTP - A class for the XAS environment
SYNOPSIS
use HTTP::Request;
use XAS::Lib::Curl::HTTP;
my $response;
my $request = HTTP::Request->new(GET => 'http://scm.kesteb.us/trac');
my $ua = XAS::Lib::Curl::HTTP->new();
$response = $ua->request($request);
print $response->content;DESCRIPTION
This module uses libcurl as the HTTP engine to make requests from a web server.
METHODS
All true/false values use 0/1 as the indicator.
new
This method initializes the module and takes the following parameters:
- -keep_alive
-
A toggle to tell curl to forbid the reuse of sockets, defaults to true.
- -follow_location
-
A toggle to tell curl to follow redirects, defaults to true.
- -max_redirects
-
The number of redirects to follow, defaults to 3.
- -timeout
-
The timeout for the connection, defaults to 60 seconds.
- -connect_timeout
-
The timeout for the initial connection, defaults to 300 seconds.
- -auth_method
-
The authentication method to use, defaults to 'noauth'. Possible values are 'any', 'basic', 'digest', 'ntlm', 'negotiate'. If a username and password are supplied, curl defaults to 'basic'.
- -password
-
An optional password to use, implies a username. Wither the password is actually used, depends on -auth_method.
- -username
-
An optional username to use, implies a password.
- -ssl_cacert
-
An optional CA cerificate to use.
- -ssl_keypasswd
-
An optional password for a signed cerificate.
- -ssl_cert
-
An optional certificate to use.
- -ssl_key
-
An optional key for a certificate to use.
- -ssl_verify_host
-
Wither to verify the host certifcate, defaults to true.
- -ssl_verify_peer
-
Wither to verify the peer certificate, defaults to true.
- -proxy_url
-
The url of a proxy that needs to be transversed.
- -proxy_auth
-
The authentication method to use, defaults to 'noauth'. Possible values are 'any', 'basic', 'digest', 'ntlm', 'negotiate'. If a proxy username and a proxy password are supplied, curl defaults to 'basic'.
- -proxy_password
-
An optional password to use, implies a username. Wither the password is actually used, depends on -proxy_auth.
- -proxy_username
-
An optional username to use, implies a password.
request($request)
This method sends the requset to the web server. The request will return a HTTP::Response object. It takes the following parameters:
- $request
-
A HTTP::Request object.
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
Kevin L. Esteb, <kevin@kesteb.us>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2014 Kevin L. Esteb
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Artistic License 2.0. For details, see the full text of the license at http://www.perlfoundation.org/artistic_license_2_0.