NAME "Net::Async::HTTP" - Asynchronous HTTP user agent SYNOPSIS use IO::Async::Loop; use Net::Async::HTTP; use URI; my $loop = IO::Async::Loop->new(); my $http = Net::Async::HTTP->new(); $loop->add( $http ); $http->do_request( uri => URI->new( "http://www.cpan.org/" ), on_response => sub { my ( $response ) = @_; print "Front page of http://www.cpan.org/ is:\n"; print $response->as_string; $loop->loop_stop; }, on_error => sub { my ( $message ) = @_; print "Cannot fetch http://www.cpan.org/ - $message\n"; $loop->loop_stop; }, ); $loop->loop_forever; DESCRIPTION This object class implements an asynchronous HTTP user agent. It sends requests to servers, and invokes continuation callbacks when responses are received. The object supports multiple concurrent connections to servers, and allows multiple outstanding requests in pipeline to any one connection. Normally, only one such object will be needed per program to support any number of requests. PARAMETERS The following named parameters may be passed to "new" or "configure": user_agent => STRING A string to set in the "User-Agent" HTTP header. If not supplied, one will be constructed that declares "Net::Async::HTTP" and the version number. max_redirects => INT Optional. How many levels of redirection to follow. If not supplied, will default to 3. Give 0 to disable redirection entirely. METHODS $http->do_request( %args ) Send an HTTP request to a server, and set up the callbacks to receive a reply. The request may be represented by an HTTP::Request object, or a URI object, depending on the arguments passed. The following named arguments are used for "HTTP::Request"s: request => HTTP::Request A reference to an "HTTP::Request" object host => STRING port => INT Hostname and port number of the server to connect to The following named arguments are used for "URI" requests: uri => URI A reference to a "URI" object method => STRING Optional. The HTTP method. If missing, "GET" is used. content => STRING or ARRAY ref Optional. The body content to use for "POST" requests. If this is a plain scalar instead of an ARRAY ref, it will not be form encoded. In this case, a "content_type" field must also be supplied to describe it. content_type => STRING The type of non-form data "content". user => STRING pass => STRING Optional. If both are given, the HTTP Basic Authorization header will be sent with these details. proxy_host => STRING proxy_port => INT Optional. Override the hostname or port number implied by the URI. For either request type, it takes the following continuation callbacks: on_response => CODE A callback that is invoked when a response to this request has been received. It will be passed an HTTP::Response object containing the response the server sent. $on_response->( $response ) on_error => CODE A callback that is invoked if an error occurs while trying to send the request or obtain the response. It will be passed an error message. $on_error->( $message ) on_redirect => CODE Optional. A callback that is invoked if a redirect response is received, before the new location is fetched. It will be passed the response and the new URL. $on_redirect->( $response, $location ) max_redirects => INT Optional. How many levels of redirection to follow. If not supplied, will default to the value given in the constructor. SEE ALSO * - Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 AUTHOR Paul Evans