NAME

NAME

HTTP::Request::FromTemplate - Create HTTP requests from templates

SYNOPSIS

use HTTP::Request::FromTemplate;
use LWP::UserAgent;

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();

# A request, snarfed from your network monitor logs:
my $template = <<TEMPLATE
POST http://[% host %][% path %][% query %] HTTP/1.1
Host: [% host %]
Connection: keep-alive
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
User-Agent: QuickTime (qtver=5.0.2;os=Windows NT 5.1)
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Keep-Alive: 300
Referer: http://[% host %][% path %][% query %]

TEMPLATE
my $t = HTTP::Request::FromTemplate->new(template => $template);
my $req = $t->process({ 'host' => 'apple.com',
'path' => '/',
'query' => '?',
});
my $response = $ua->request($request); # replay the request

ABSTRACT

I wanted this for a long time already. It makes it very convenient to
just paste a logged session from the Live HTTP Headers
<http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/> into a template file and be able
to faithfully replay a request or to parametrize it without needing to
manually compare what is sent against what I want.

PREDEFINED TEMPLATE PARAMETERS

There is one predefined/magic template parameter. content_length will
be set to the length of the content (after the template has been filled
out) unless it was passed in via the template parameters.

FEEDBACK

This is one of the modules that I created because the idea hit me as
crazy but useful. So if you use the module, please tell me what
enhancements you'd like, or where it falls short of your expectations.

KNOWN BUGS

* While this module tries to faithfully replicate a HTTP request from
a template, it uses HTTP::Request. This means that the order of the
headers will be as HTTP::Request thinks and not as your template
prescribes.

* Only rudimentary testing has been done.

* The test suite uses Test::Base, which uses Spiffy. I know I will
rot in hell for that, but it was so convenient at the time.

Patches are welcome.

REPORTING BUGS

If you find bugs, please report them via
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=HTTP-Request-FromTemplate or,
preferrably via mail to [email protected].

AUTHOR

Max Maischein ([email protected])

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2005 Max Maischein. All Rights Reserved.

This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

LWP,HTTP::Request,Mozilla Live HTTP Headers