1HTTP::Config(3)       User Contributed Perl Documentation      HTTP::Config(3)
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NAME

6       HTTP::Config - Configuration for request and response objects
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VERSION

9       version 6.44
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SYNOPSIS

12        use HTTP::Config;
13        my $c = HTTP::Config->new;
14        $c->add(m_domain => ".example.com", m_scheme => "http", verbose => 1);
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16        use HTTP::Request;
17        my $request = HTTP::Request->new(GET => "http://www.example.com");
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19        if (my @m = $c->matching($request)) {
20           print "Yadayada\n" if $m[0]->{verbose};
21        }
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DESCRIPTION

24       An "HTTP::Config" object is a list of entries that can be matched
25       against request or request/response pairs.  Its purpose is to hold
26       configuration data that can be looked up given a request or response
27       object.
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29       Each configuration entry is a hash.  Some keys specify matching to
30       occur against attributes of request/response objects.  Other keys can
31       be used to hold user data.
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33       The following methods are provided:
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35       $conf = HTTP::Config->new
36           Constructs a new empty "HTTP::Config" object and returns it.
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38       $conf->entries
39           Returns the list of entries in the configuration object.  In scalar
40           context returns the number of entries.
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42       $conf->empty
43           Return true if there are no entries in the configuration object.
44           This is just a shorthand for "not $conf->entries".
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46       $conf->add( %matchspec, %other )
47       $conf->add( \%entry )
48           Adds a new entry to the configuration.  You can either pass
49           separate key/value pairs or a hash reference.
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51       $conf->remove( %spec )
52           Removes (and returns) the entries that have matches for all the
53           key/value pairs in %spec.  If %spec is empty this will match all
54           entries; so it will empty the configuration object.
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56       $conf->matching( $uri, $request, $response )
57       $conf->matching( $uri )
58       $conf->matching( $request )
59       $conf->matching( $response )
60           Returns the entries that match the given $uri, $request and
61           $response triplet.
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63           If called with a single $request object then the $uri is obtained
64           by calling its 'uri_canonical' method.  If called with a single
65           $response object, then the request object is obtained by calling
66           its 'request' method; and then the $uri is obtained as if a single
67           $request was provided.
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69           The entries are returned with the most specific matches first.  In
70           scalar context returns the most specific match or "undef" in none
71           match.
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73       $conf->add_item( $item, %matchspec )
74       $conf->remove_items( %spec )
75       $conf->matching_items( $uri, $request, $response )
76           Wrappers that hides the entries themselves.
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78   Matching
79       The following keys on a configuration entry specify matching.  For all
80       of these you can provide an array of values instead of a single value.
81       The entry matches if at least one of the values in the array matches.
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83       Entries that require match against a response object attribute will
84       never match unless a response object was provided.
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86       m_scheme => $scheme
87           Matches if the URI uses the specified scheme; e.g. "http".
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89       m_secure => $bool
90           If $bool is TRUE; matches if the URI uses a secure scheme.  If
91           $bool is FALSE; matches if the URI does not use a secure scheme.
92           An example of a secure scheme is "https".
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94       m_host_port => "$hostname:$port"
95           Matches if the URI's host_port method return the specified value.
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97       m_host => $hostname
98           Matches if the URI's host method returns the specified value.
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100       m_port => $port
101           Matches if the URI's port method returns the specified value.
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103       m_domain => ".$domain"
104           Matches if the URI's host method return a value that within the
105           given domain.  The hostname "www.example.com" will for instance
106           match the domain ".com".
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108       m_path => $path
109           Matches if the URI's path method returns the specified value.
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111       m_path_prefix => $path
112           Matches if the URI's path is the specified path or has the
113           specified path as prefix.
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115       m_path_match => $Regexp
116           Matches if the regular expression matches the URI's path.  Eg.
117           qr/\.html$/.
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119       m_method => $method
120           Matches if the request method matches the specified value. Eg.
121           "GET" or "POST".
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123       m_code => $digit
124       m_code => $status_code
125           Matches if the response status code matches.  If a single digit is
126           specified; matches for all response status codes beginning with
127           that digit.
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129       m_proxy => $url
130           Matches if the request is to be sent to the given Proxy server.
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132       m_media_type => "*/*"
133       m_media_type => "text/*"
134       m_media_type => "html"
135       m_media_type => "xhtml"
136       m_media_type => "text/html"
137           Matches if the response media type matches.
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139           With a value of "html" matches if $response->content_is_html
140           returns TRUE.  With a value of "xhtml" matches if
141           $response->content_is_xhtml returns TRUE.
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143       m_uri__$method => undef
144           Matches if the URI object provides the method.
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146       m_uri__$method => $string
147           Matches if the URI's $method method returns the given value.
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149       m_header__$field => $string
150           Matches if either the request or the response have a header $field
151           with the given value.
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153       m_response_attr__$key => undef
154       m_response_attr__$key => $string
155           Matches if the response object has that key, or the entry has the
156           given value.
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SEE ALSO

159       URI, HTTP::Request, HTTP::Response
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AUTHOR

162       Gisle Aas <gisle@activestate.com>
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165       This software is copyright (c) 1994 by Gisle Aas.
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167       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
168       the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
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