Difference: TWikiFuncDotPm (13 vs. 14)
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| < < | getExternalResource( $url ) -> $response | |||||||
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Get whatever is at the other end of a URL (using an HTTP GET request). Will
only work for encrypted protocols such as https if the LWP CPAN module is
installed.
Note that the $url may have an optional user and password, as specified by | ||||||||
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| < < | the relevant RFC. Any proxy set in configure is honoured. | |||||||
| > > | the relevant RFC. Any proxy set in configure is honored.
Optional headers may be supplied of form 'name1', 'value1', 'name2', 'value2'.
Do not add a User-Agent header, it will be added. | |||||||
The $response is an object that is known to implement the following subset of
the methods of LWP::Response. It may in fact be an LWP::Response object, | ||||||||
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my $response = TWiki::Func::getExternalResource($url);
if (!$response->is_error() && $response->isa('HTTP::Response')) { | ||||||||
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| < < | ... other methods of HTTP::Response may be called | |||||||
| > > | $text = $response->content(); # ... other methods of HTTP::Response may be called | |||||||
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| < < | ... only the methods listed above may be called | |||||||
| > > | # ... only the methods listed above may be called | |||||||
| } | ||||||||
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