NAME

VERSION

SYNOPSIS

  use HTTP::Headers::ActionPack;

  my $n = HTTP::Headers::ActionPack->new->get_content_negotiator;

  # matches text/html; charset="iso8859-1"
  $n->choose_media_type(
      ["text/html", "text/html;charset=iso8859-1" ],
      "text/html;charset=iso8859-1, application/xml"
  );

  # matches en-US
  $n->choose_language(
      ['en-US', 'es'],
      "da, en-gb;q=0.8, en;q=0.7"
  );

  # matches US-ASCII
  $n->choose_charset(
      [ "UTF-8", "US-ASCII" ],
      "US-ASCII, UTF-8"
  );

  # matches gzip
  $n->choose_encoding(
      [ "gzip", "identity" },
      "gzip, identity;q=0.7"
  );

DESCRIPTION

Content negotiation is a tricky business, it needs to account for such things as the quality rating, order of elements (both in the header and in the list of provided items) and in the case of media types it gets even messier. This module does it's best to figure things out and do what is expected on it. We have included a number of examples from the RFC documents in our test suite as well.

METHODS

"choose_media_type ( $provided, $header )"

Given an ARRAY ref of media type strings and an HTTP header, this will return the appropriately matching HTTP::Headers::ActionPack::MediaType instance.

"choose_language ( $provided, $header )"

Given a list of language codes and an HTTP header value, this will attempt to negotiate the best language match. It will return the language string that best matched.

"choose_charset ( $provided, $header )"

Given a list of charset names and an HTTP header value, this will attempt to negotiate the best charset match. It will return the name of the charset that best matched.

"choose_encoding ( $provided, $header )"

Given a list of encoding names and an HTTP header value, this will attempt to negotiate the best encoding match. It will return the name of the encoding which best matched.

SEE ALSO

There is nothing wrong with this module, however it attempts to answer all the negotiation questions at once, whereas this module allows you to do it one thing at a time.

AUTHOR

CONTRIBUTORS

• Andrew Nelson <anelson@cpan.org>
• Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>
• Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>
• Jesse Luehrs <doy@tozt.net>
• Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.