new

Create a new request factory object. It expects its parameters in a hashref.

The following parameters are accepted. They are explained in detail in POE::Component::Client::HTTP.

• Agent
• MaxSize
• Streaming
• Protocol
• From
• CookieJar
• NoProxy
• Proxy
• FollowRedirects
• Timeout

timeout [$timeout]

Method that lets you query and/or change the timeout value for requests created by this factory.

is_streaming

Accessor for the Streaming parameter

agent

Accessor to the Agent parameter

from

getter/setter for the From parameter

create_request

Creates a new POE::Component::Client::HTTP::Request

max_response_size

Method to retrieve the maximum size of a response, as set by the "MaxSize" parameter to Client::HTTP's "spawn()" method.

block_size

Accessor for the Streaming parameter

frob_cookies $response

Store the cookies from the HTTP::Response parameter passed into our cookie jar

max_redirect_count [$count]

Function to get/set the maximum number of redirects to follow automatically. This allows you to retrieve or modify the value you passed with the FollowRedirects parameter to Client::HTTP's "spawn" method.

parse_proxy $proxy

This static method is used for parsing proxies. The $proxy can be array reference like [host, port] or comma separated string like "http://1.2.3.4:80/,http://2.3.4.5:80/".

parse_proxy() returns an array reference of two-element tuples (also array ferences), each containing a host and a port:

  [ [ host1, port1 ],
    [ host2, port2 ],
    ...
  ]