NAME

SCGI::Request

DESCRIPTION

This module implements the part of the SCGI protocol that reads the environment. All that remains after this is the content of the request. The protocol and this module guarentee that there will be a CONTENT_LENGTH for the body of the request in the environment.

SYNOPISIS

  # $request got from SCGI
  $request->read_env;
  
  read $request->connection, my $body, $request->env->{CONTENT_LENGTH};

public methods

read_env: Read the environment in a blocking or non-blocking manner, per parameter to "SCGI-"new>. Returns true if it has finished.
env: Gets the environment for this request after it has been read. This will return undef until "read_env" or "sysread_env" has been called and returned true.
connection: Returns the open connection to the client.
close: Closes the connection.
blocking: Returns true if the connection is blocking.
set_blocking: If boolean argument is true turns on blocking, otherwise turns it off.

private methods

_new: Creates a new SCGI::Request. This is used by SCGI in the "accept" method, so if you are considering using this, use that instead.
_decode_env: Takes the encoded environment as a string and sets the env ready for access with "env".
_set_env: Sets the environment for this request.
_blocking_read_env: Reads and decodes the environment in one go. Returns true on success, raises an exception on failiure.

AUTHOR

Thomas Yandell <mailto:tom+scgi@vipercode.com>

COPYRIGHT

LICENSE

This file is part of SCGI (perl SCGI library).

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