HTTP::UserAgent

Web user agent class for Raku.

Usage

use HTTP::UserAgent;

my $ua = HTTP::UserAgent.new;
$ua.timeout = 10;

my $response = $ua.get("URL");

if $response.is-success {
    say $response.content;
} else {
    die $response.status-line;
}

Installation

To install it using Zef (a module management tool bundled with Rakudo Star):

$ zef install HTTP::UserAgent

Testing

To run tests:

$ prove -e "perl6 -Ilib"

Documentation

Please see the documentation links listed below:

• HTTP::Cookies

  • HTTP::Cookie

• HTTP::Header

  • HTTP::Header::Field

• HTTP::Message

• HTTP::Request

• HTTP::Response

• HTTP::UserAgent

  • HTTP::UserAgent::Common

To-do List and Future Ideas

strikethrough text means done.

• clean up

• speed up

HTTP::UserAgent

• HTTP Auth

• let user set his own cookie jar

• make getprint() return the code response

• security fix - use File::Temp to create temporary cookie jar

• use Promises

• make SSL dependency as optional

HTTP::Cookies

• path restriction

OpenSSL

• fix NativeCall's int bug

• make it work on more platforms

IO::Socket::SSL

• make it work on more platforms

• make SSL support more reliable

• add throwing exception on failing SSL

• more tests