IO::All::HTTP(3pm)

NAME

IO::All::LWP - Extends IO::All to HTTP URLs

SYNOPSIS

    use IO::All;
    $content < io('http://example.org');             # GET webpage into scalar
    io('http://example.org') > io('index.html');     # GET to file
    "hello\n" > io('http://example.org/index.html'); # PUT webpage
    # two ways of getting a page with a password:
    $content < io('http://me:[email protected]');
    $content < io('http://example.org')->user('me')->password('secret');

DESCRIPTION

This module extends IO::All for dealing with HTTP URLs. Note that you don't need to use it explicitly, as it is autoloaded by IO::All whenever it sees something that looks like an HTTP URL.

The SYNOPSIS shows some simple typical examples, but there are many other interesting combinations with other IO::All features! For example, you can get an HTTP URL and write the content to a socket, or to an FTP URL, of to a DBM file.

METHODS

This is a subclass of IO::All::LWP. The only new method is "http", which can be used to create a blank IO::All::HTTP object; or it can also take an HTTP URL as a parameter. Note that in most cases it is simpler just to call io('http://example.com'), which calls the "http" method automatically.

OPERATOR OVERLOADING

The same operators from IO::All may be used. < GETs an HTTP URL; > PUTs to an HTTP URL.

AUTHORS

Ivan Tubert-Brohman <[email protected]> and Brian Ingerson <[email protected]>

COPYRIGHT

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

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