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NAME

6       HTML::HTML5::Parser::UA - simple web user agent class
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SYNOPSIS

9        use aliased 'HTML::HTML5::Parser::UA';
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11        my $response = UA->get($url);
12        die unless $response->{success};
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14        print $response->{decoded_content};
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DESCRIPTION

17       This is a simple wrapper around HTTP::Tiny and LWP::UserAgent to smooth
18       out the API differences between them. It only supports bog standard
19       get($url) requests.
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21       If LWP::UserAgent is already in memory, this module will use that.
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23       If LWP::UserAgent is not in memory, then this module will use
24       HTTP::Tiny (or direct filesystem access for "file://" URLs).
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26       If LWP::UserAgent is not in memory, and you attempt to request a URL
27       that HTTP::Tiny cannot handle (e.g. an "ftp://" URL), then this module
28       will load LWP::UserAgent and die if it cannot be loaded (e.g. is not
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31       HTML::HTML5::Parser::UA is used by the "parse_file" method of
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34   Class Method
35       "get($url, $ua)"
36           Gets the URL and returns a hashref similar to HTTP::Tiny's
37           hashrefs, but with an additional "decoded_content" key, which
38           contains the response body, decoded into a Perl character string
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41           If $ua is given (it's optional), then this user agent will be used
42           to perform the actual request. Must be undef or an LWP::UserAgent
43           object (or a subclass) or an HTTP::Tiny object (or a subclass).
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45   Package Variable
46       $HTML::HTML5::Parser::NO_LWP
47           If true, avoids using LWP::UserAgent.
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MOTIVATION

50       LWP::UserAgent is a good piece of software but it has a dependency on
51       HTML::Parser. HTML::Parser is only used to provide one fairly esoteric
52       feature, which this package doesn't make use of. (It's the "parse_head"
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55       Because of that, I don't especially want HTML::HTML5::Parser to have a
56       dependency on LWP::UserAgent. Hence this module.
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SEE ALSO

59       HTML::HTML5::Parser.
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AUTHOR

62       Toby Inkster, <tobyink@cpan.org>
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65       Copyright (C) 2012 by Toby Inkster
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67       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
68       under the same terms as Perl itself.
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DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

71       THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
72       WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
73       MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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