NAME

Dicop::Client::LWP - a connector object for Dicop::Client using libwww

SYNOPSIS

        use Dicop::Client;

        my $client = Dicop::Client->new ( via => 'LWP' );
        $client->work();                # never returns

REQUIRES

perl5.004, Exporter

EXPORTS

Exports nothing per default.

DESCRIPTION

This module represents a connector object for the client/proxy and manages the actual connection from the client/proxy to the server.

METHODS

new

Create a new object.

agent

Set/get the user agent string.

        my $agent = $ua->agent();
        $ua->agent('UserAgent/1.0');

post

Given a server url and a parameter string, simulates a PUT request:

        $response = $ua->put('http://127.0.0.1:8888/',$params);

get

Given a server url and a parameter string, simulates a GET request:

        $response = $ua->get('http://127.0.0.1:8888/files/main');

BUGS

Under a chroot environment, loading LWP will fail because it might not be able to load all the neccessary data (like /etc/protocols), and errors like Bad protocol 'tcp' or Cannot locate URI/_foreign might appear.

AUTHOR

DiCoP is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.

See http://www.bsi.de/ for more information.

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