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Monks,

I have a script that makes an HTTP request directly by opening a socket and reading the response (I can't use LWP::UserAgent because the program is multi-tasking, so it can't block while waiting for the response). Okay, so now that I have the HTTP response in a buffer, I want to know what I've got there. Is there an easy way to turn it into an HTTP::Response object, so I can query some info out of it? I didn't see an appropriate method in the perldoc...

In fact, all I really need is the response code. So, if no one has a good idea of how to turn it into an HTTP::Response, perhaps you can have a look at this snippet and see if it looks okay as far as parsing the response for the code:

# $buf has the reponse read directly off the socket

# the first line should be the status line
my $response_ok = $buf =~ /^(HTTP[^\r\n]+)\r?\n/i;
my $status_line = $1;
if (not $response_ok)
{
    # yikes, response has no status line!? (bail out)
}

my ($protocol, $status, $msg) = split ' ', $status_line;

if ($status == 200)
{
    # success, got 200 (OK) response
}
else
{
    # error, not OK response
}
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TIA,

--
3dan

In reply to create a HTTP::Response object from a raw buffer? by edan

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