HTTP::Body - HTTP Body Parser

NAME

HTTP::Body - HTTP Body Parser

SYNOPSIS

    use HTTP::Body;
    
    sub handler : method {
        my ( $class, $r ) = @_;

        my $content_type   = $r->headers_in->get('Content-Type');
        my $content_length = $r->headers_in->get('Content-Length');
        
        my $body   = HTTP::Body->new( $content_type, $content_length );
        my $length = $content_length;

        while ( $length ) {

            $r->read( my $buffer, ( $length < 8192 ) ? $length : 8192 );

            $length -= length($buffer);
            
            $body->add($buffer);
        }
        
        my $uploads = $body->upload; # hashref
        my $params  = $body->param;  # hashref
        my $body    = $body->body;   # IO::Handle
    }

DESCRIPTION

HTTP Body Parser.

METHODS

new: Constructor. Takes content type and content length as parameters, returns a the HTTP::Body manpage object.
add: Add string to internal buffer. Will call spin unless done. returns length before adding self.
body: accessor for the body.
buffer: read only accessor for the buffer.
content_length: read only accessor for content length
content_type: ready only accessor for the content type
init: return self.
length: read only accessor for body length.
spin: Abstract method to spin the io handle.
state: accessor for body state.
param: accesor for http parameters.
upload

BUGS

Chunked requests are currently not supported.

AUTHOR

Christian Hansen, ch@ngmedia.com

Sebastian Riedel, sri@cpan.org

LICENSE

This library is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as perl itself.

HTTP::Body - HTTP Body Parser