Arch::LiteWeb(3pm)

NAME
Arch::LiteWeb - simple way to access web pages

SYNOPSIS
    my $web = Arch::LiteWeb->new;
    my $content = $web->get("http://some.domain:81/some/path");
    die $web->error . " while processing " . $web->request_url
        unless $content;
    my $content_type = $web->response_headers->{content_type};

DESCRIPTION
This class provides a basic and easy to use support for the client-side HTTP. It is supplied in order to avoid dependency on LWP. If such dependency is not a problem, consider to use LWP instead that provides much better support for HTTP and other protocols.

METHODS
The following class methods are available:

get, post, request_url, error, error_with_url, network_error, response_code, response_codestr, response_error, response_headers, response_content.

get url [params ...]
    Execute HTTP get of the given url and return the html string or undef on network/response error. Use other methods to get the details about the error and the response.

    params is key-value hash, the following keys are supported:

        url_host            - only used if url is none
        url_port            - only used if url is none (80)
        url_path            - only used if url is none
        endl                - default is "\015\012"
        timeout             - default is 20 seconds
        user_agent          - default is "Arch::LiteWeb/0.1"
        nocache             - add a no-cache header
        noredirect          - don't follow redirect responses
        max_redirect_depth  - default is 5
        use_proxy           - default is false
        proxy_url           - proxy url ($http_proxy supported too)
        proxy_host          - only used if proxy_url is none
        proxy_port          - only used if proxy_url is none (80)

post url input [params]
    Not implemented yet.

request_url
    Actual url of the last issued request or undef. If partial redirect responses are enabled, then the result is the last (non-redirect) url.

error
    If the last request resulted in error (i.e. get/post returned undef), then this method returns the error message, otherwise it returns undef. This is just a shortcut for network_error || response_error.

error_with_url
    Like error, but with "\nwhile fetching request_url\n" text appended if non undef.

network_error
    The network error message for the last request or undef.

response_error
    The response error message for the last request or undef.

response_code
    The last response code (integer) or undef.

response_codestr
    The last response code (string) or undef.

response_headers
    The last response headers (hashref of HTTP headers) or undef.

response_content
    The last response content or undef. This is the same thing that the last get/post returns.

BUGS
Not intended for use in mission-critical applications.

AUTHORS
Mikhael Goikhman (migo@homemail.com--Perl-GPL/arch-perl--devel).

SEE ALSO
For more information, see LWP, LWP::Simple.