Difference: TWikiNetDotPm (3 vs. 4)

Revision 42012-10-07 - TWikiContributor

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getExternalResource( $url ) -> $response

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@hea"> getExternalResource( $url, @headers ) -> $response

  Get whatever is at the other end of a URL (using an HTTP GET request). Will only work for encrypted protocols such as https if the LWP CPAN module is installed.

Note that the $url may have an optional user and password, as specified by

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the relevant RFC. Any proxy set in configure is honoured.
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the relevant RFC. Any proxy set in configure is honored.

Optional headers may be supplied of form 'name1', 'value1', 'name2', 'value2'. Do not add a User-Agent header, it will be added.

  The $response is an object that is known to implement the following subset of the methods of LWP::Response. It may in fact be an LWP::Response object,
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my $response = TWiki::Func::getExternalResource($url);
if (!$response->is_error() && $response->isa('HTTP::Response')) {
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... other methods of HTTP::Response may be called
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$text = $response->content(); # ... other methods of HTTP::Response may be called
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... only the methods listed above may be called
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# ... only the methods listed above may be called
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