jonathanstowe/http-useragent

Web user agent class for Perl 6.

HTTP::UserAgent

Web user agent class for Perl 6.

Usage

use HTTP::UserAgent;

my $ua = HTTP::UserAgent.new;
$ua.timeout = 10;

my $response = $ua.get("URL");

if $response.is-success {
    say $response.content;
} else {
    die $response.status-line;
}

Installation

To install it using Zef (a module management tool bundled with Rakudo Star):

$ zef install HTTP::UserAgent

Testing

To run tests:

$ prove -e "perl6 -Ilib"

Documentation

Please see the documentation links listed below:

• HTTP::Cookies
  • HTTP::Cookie
• HTTP::Header
  • HTTP::Header::Field
• HTTP::Message
• HTTP::Request
• HTTP::Response
• HTTP::UserAgent
  • HTTP::UserAgent::Common

To-do List and Future Ideas

strikethrough text means done.

• clean up
• speed up

HTTP::UserAgent

• HTTP Auth
• let user set his own cookie jar
• make getprint() return the code response
• security fix - use File::Temp to create temporary cookie jar
• use Promises
• make SSL dependency as optional

HTTP::Cookies

• path restriction

OpenSSL

• fix NativeCall's int bug
• make it work on more platforms

IO::Socket::SSL

• make it work on more platforms
• make SSL support more reliable
• add throwing exception on failing SSL
• more tests