NAME

HTTP::MessageParser - Parse HTTP Messages

SYNOPSIS

    use HTTP::MessageParser;

    my ( $message, @request );

    while ( my $line = $client->getline ) {
        next if !$message && $line eq "\x0D\x0A"; # RFC 2616 4.1
        $message .= $line;
        last if $message =~ /\x0D\x0A\x0D\x0A$/;
    }

    eval {
        @request = HTTP::MessageParser->parse_request($message);
    };

    if ( $@ ) {
        # 400 Bad Request
    }

    # ...

DESCRIPTION

Parse HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 Messages.

METHODS

parse_headers( $string )

    my @headers = HTTP::MessageParser->parse_headers($string);
    my $headers = HTTP::MessageParser->parse_headers($string);

Parses Message Headers. field-name's are lowercased. Leading and trailing LWS is removed. LWS occurring between field-content are replaced with a single SP. Takes one argument, a string or a reference to a string, if it's a reference it will be consumed.

parse_request( $string )

    my ( $Method, $Request_URI, $HTTP_Version, $Headers, $Body )
      = HTTP::MessageParser->parse_request($string);

Parses a Request. Expects a Request-Line followed by zero more header fields and an empty line. Content occurring after end of header fields is returned as a string reference, $Body. Takes one argument, a string or a reference to a string, if it's a reference it will be consumed.

Throws an exception upon failure.

parse_request_line( $string )

    my ( $Method, $Request_URI, $HTTP_Version )
      = HTTP::MessageParser->parse_request_line($string);

Parses a Request-Line. Any leading CRLF is ignored. Takes one argument, a string or a reference to a string, if it's a reference it will be consumed.

Throws an exception upon failure.

parse_response( $string )

    my ( $HTTP_Version, $Status_Code, $Reason_Phrase, $Headers, $Body )
      = HTTP::MessageParser->parse_response($string);

Parses a Response. Expects a Status-Line followed by zero more header fields and an empty line. Content occurring after end of header fields is returned as a string reference, $Body. Takes one argument, a string or a reference to a string, if it's a reference it will be consumed.

Throws an exception upon failure.

parse_response_line( $string )

    my ( $HTTP_Version, $Status_Code, $Reason_Phrase )
      = HTTP::MessageParser->parse_response_line($string);

Parses a Status-Line. Takes one argument, a string or a reference to a string, if it's a reference it will be consumed.

Throws an exception upon failure.

parse_version( $string )

    my ( $major, $minor ) = HTTP::MessageParser->parse_version($string);
    my $version = HTTP::MessageParser->parse_version($string);

Parses a HTTP-Version string. In scalar context it returns a version number ( major * 1000 + minor ). In list context it returns major and minor as two separate integers.

Throws an exception upon failure.

EXPORTS

Nothing by default. Following subroutines can be exported:

parse_headers

parse_request

parse_request_line

parse_response

parse_response_line

parse_version

SEE ALSO

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html

HTTP::Request

HTTP::Response

HTTP::Message

HTTP::Parser

AUTHOR

Christian Hansen chansen@cpan.org

COPYRIGHT

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