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custom_response
make_etag
meets_conditions
rationalize_mtime
send_cgi_header
set_content_length
set_etag
set_keepalive
set_last_modified
update_mtime
Apache2::Response - Perl API for Apache HTTP request response methods
use Apache2::Response (); $r->custom_response(Apache2::Const::FORBIDDEN, "No Entry today"); $etag = $r->make_etag($force_weak); $r->set_etag(); $status = $r->meets_conditions(); $mtime_rat = $r->rationalize_mtime($mtime); $r->set_last_modified($mtime); $r->update_mtime($mtime); $r->send_cgi_header($buffer); $r->set_content_length($length); $ret = $r->set_keepalive();
Apache2::Response
provides the Apache request object utilities API for dealing
with HTTP response generation process.
Apache2::Response
provides the following functions and/or methods:
custom_response
Install a custom response handler for a given status
$r->custom_response($status, $string);
$r
( Apache2::RequestRec object|docs::2.0::api::Apache2::RequestRec
)
The current request
$status
( Apache2::Const
constant|docs::2.0::api::Apache2::Const>
)
The status for which the custom response should be used
(e.g. Apache2::Const::AUTH_REQUIRED
)
$string
(string)
The custom response to use. This can be a static string, or a URL, full or just the uri path (/foo/bar.txt).
custom_response()
doesn't alter the response code, but is used to
replace the standard response body. For example, here is how to change
the response body for the access handler failure:
package MyApache2::MyShop; use Apache2::Response (); use Apache2::Const -compile => qw(FORBIDDEN OK); sub access { my $r = shift; if (MyApache2::MyShop::tired_squirrels()) { $r->custom_response(Apache2::Const::FORBIDDEN, "It's siesta time, please try later"); return Apache2::Const::FORBIDDEN; } return Apache2::Const::OK; } ...
# httpd.conf PerlModule MyApache2::MyShop <Location /TestAPI__custom_response> AuthName dummy AuthType none PerlAccessHandler MyApache2::MyShop::access PerlResponseHandler MyApache2::MyShop::response </Location>
When squirrels can't run any more, the handler will return 403, with the custom message:
It's siesta time, please try later
make_etag
Construct an entity tag from the resource information. If it's a real file, build in some of the file characteristics.
$etag = $r->make_etag($force_weak);
$r
( Apache2::RequestRec object|docs::2.0::api::Apache2::RequestRec
)
The current request
$force_weak
(number)
Force the entity tag to be weak - it could be modified again in as short an interval.
$etag
(string)
The entity tag
meets_conditions
Implements condition GET
rules for HTTP/1.1 specification. This
function inspects the client headers and determines if the response
fulfills the specified requirements.
$status = $r->meets_conditions();
$r
( Apache2::RequestRec object|docs::2.0::api::Apache2::RequestRec
)
The current request
$status
( Apache2::Const
status constant|docs::2.0::api::Apache2::Const>
)
Apache2::Const::OK
if the response fulfills the condition GET
rules. Otherwise some other status code (which should be returned to
Apache).
Refer to the Generating Correct HTTP Headers document for an indepth discussion of this method.
rationalize_mtime
Return the latest rational time from a request/mtime pair.
$mtime_rat = $r->rationalize_mtime($mtime);
$r
( Apache2::RequestRec object|docs::2.0::api::Apache2::RequestRec
)
The current request
$mtime
( time in seconds )
The last modified time
$mtime_rat
( time in seconds )
the latest rational time from a request/mtime pair. Mtime is returned unless it's in the future, in which case we return the current time.
send_cgi_header
Parse the header
$r->send_cgi_header($buffer);
$r
( Apache2::RequestRec object|docs::2.0::api::Apache2::RequestRec
)
$buffer
(string)
headers and optionally a response body
This method is really for back-compatibility with mod_perl 1.0. It's very inefficient to send headers this way, because of the parsing overhead.
If there is a response body following the headers it'll be handled too
(as if it was sent via
print()|docs::2.0::api::Apache2::RequestIO::C_print_/
).
Notice that if only HTTP headers are included they won't be sent until some body is sent (again the ``send'' part is retained from the mod_perl 1.0 method).
set_content_length
Set the content length for this request.
$r->set_content_length($length);
$r
( Apache2::RequestRec object|docs::2.0::api::Apache2::RequestRec
)
The current request
$length
(integer)
The new content length
set_etag
Set the E-tag outgoing header
$r->set_etag();
$r
( Apache2::RequestRec object|docs::2.0::api::Apache2::RequestRec
)
set_keepalive
Set the keepalive status for this request
$ret = $r->set_keepalive();
$r
( Apache2::RequestRec object|docs::2.0::api::Apache2::RequestRec
)
The current request
$ret
( boolean )
true if keepalive can be set, false otherwise
It's called by ap_http_header_filter()
. For the complete
complicated logic implemented by this method see
httpd-2.0/server/http_protocol.c.
set_last_modified
sets the Last-Modified
response header field to the value of the
mtime field in the request structure -- rationalized to keep it from
being in the future.
$r->set_last_modified($mtime);
$r
( Apache2::RequestRec object|docs::2.0::api::Apache2::RequestRec
)
$mtime
( time in seconds )
if the $mtime
argument is passed,
$r->update_mtime will be first run with that
argument.
update_mtime
Set the
$r->mtime|docs::2.0::api::Apache2::RequestRec/C_mtime_
field
to the specified value if it's later than what's already there.
$r->update_mtime($mtime);
$r
( Apache2::RequestRec object|docs::2.0::api::Apache2::RequestRec
)
The current request
$mtime
( time in seconds )
See also: $r->set_last_modified.
Apache2::Response
also provides auto-generated Perl interface for a
few other methods which aren't tested at the moment and therefore
their API is a subject to change. These methods will be finalized
later as a need arises. If you want to rely on any of the following
methods please contact the the mod_perl development mailing list so we can help each other take the steps necessary
to shift the method to an officially supported API.
send_error_response
Send an ``error'' response back to client. It is used for any response that can be generated by the server from the request record. This includes all 204 (no content), 3xx (redirect), 4xx (client error), and 5xx (server error) messages that have not been redirected to another handler via the ErrorDocument feature.
$r->send_error_response($recursive_error);
$r
( Apache2::RequestRec object|docs::2.0::api::Apache2::RequestRec
)
The current request
$recursive_error
( boolean )
the error status in case we get an error in the process of trying to
deal with an ErrorDocument
to handle some other error. In that
case, we print the default report for the first thing that went wrong,
and more briefly report on the problem with the ErrorDocument
.
META: it's really an internal Apache method, I'm not quite sure how can it be used externally.
send_mmap
META: Autogenerated - needs to be reviewed/completed
Send an MMAP'ed file to the client
$ret = $r->send_mmap($mm, $offset, $length);
$r
( Apache2::RequestRec object|docs::2.0::api::Apache2::RequestRec
)
The current request
$mm
(APR::Mmap|docs::2.0::api::APR::Mmap
)
The MMAP'ed file to send
$offset
(number)
The offset into the MMAP to start sending
$length
(integer)
The amount of data to send
$ret
(integer)
The number of bytes sent
META: requires a working APR::Mmap, which is not supported at the moment.
mod_perl 2.0 and its core modules are copyrighted under The Apache Software License, Version 2.0.