1HTTP::Config(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation HTTP::Config(3)
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6 HTTP::Config - Configuration for request and response objects
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9 version 6.26
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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};
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24 An "HTTP::Config" object is a list of entries that can be matched
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29 Each configuration entry is a hash. Some keys specify matching to
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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
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42 $conf->empty
43 Return true if there are no entries in the configuration object.
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46 $conf->add( %matchspec, %other )
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48 Adds a new entry to the configuration. You can either pass
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51 $conf->remove( %spec )
52 Removes (and returns) the entries that have matches for all the
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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
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63 If called with a single $request object then the $uri is obtained
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69 The entries are returned with the most specific matches first. In
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73 $conf->add_item( $item, %matchspec )
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75 $conf->matching_items( $uri, $request, $response )
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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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86 m_scheme => $scheme
87 Matches if the URI uses the specified scheme; e.g. "http".
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90 If $bool is TRUE; matches if the URI uses a secure scheme. If
91 $bool is FALSE; matches if the URI does not use a secure scheme.
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94 m_host_port => "$hostname:$port"
95 Matches if the URI's host_port method return the specified value.
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98 Matches if the URI's host method returns the specified value.
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101 Matches if the URI's port method returns the specified value.
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103 m_domain => ".$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
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109 Matches if the URI's path method returns the specified value.
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112 Matches if the URI's path is the specified path or has the
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116 Matches if the regular expression matches the URI's path. Eg.
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119 m_method => $method
120 Matches if the request method matches the specified value. Eg.
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123 m_code => $digit
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125 Matches if the response status code matches. If a single digit is
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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 => "*/*"
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134 m_media_type => "html"
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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 $response->content_is_html
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143 m_uri__$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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150 Matches if either the request or the response have a header $field
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154 m_response_attr__$key => $string
155 Matches if the response object has that key, or the entry has the
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159 URI, HTTP::Request, HTTP::Response
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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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