1WWW::Mechanize::GZip(3)User Contributed Perl DocumentatioWnWW::Mechanize::GZip(3)
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NAME

6       WWW::Mechanize::GZip - tries to fetch webpages with gzip-compression
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VERSION

9       Version 0.14
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SYNOPSIS

12           use WWW::Mechanize::GZip;
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14           my $mech = WWW::Mechanize::GZip->new();
15           my $response = $mech->get( $url );
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17           print "x-content-length (before unzip) = ", $response->header('x-content-length');
18           print "content-length (after unzip) = ", $response->header('content-length');
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DESCRIPTION

21       The WWW::Mechanize::GZip module tries to fetch a URL by requesting
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24       If the response contains a header with 'Content-Encoding: gzip', it
25       decompresses the response in order to get the original (uncompressed)
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28       This module will help to reduce bandwidth fetching webpages, if
29       supported by the webeserver. If the webserver does not support gzip-
30       compression, no decompression will be made.
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32       This modules is a direct subclass of WWW::Mechanize and will therefore
33       support any methods provided by WWW::Mechanize.
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35       The decompression is handled by Compress::Zlib::memGunzip.
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37   METHODS
38       prepare_request
39         Adds 'Accept-Encoding' => 'gzip' to outgoing HTTP-headers before
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43         Unzips response-body if 'content-encoding' is 'gzip' and corrects
44         'content-length' to unzipped content-length.
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SEE ALSO

47       WWW::Mechanize
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AUTHOR

52       Peter Giessner "cardb@planet-elektronik.de"
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55       Copyright (c) 2007, Peter Giessner "cardb@planet-elektronik.de".  All
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58       This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
59       under the same terms as Perl itself.
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