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Web-Detect-0.05
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NAME

Web::Detect - Detect if program is running under some web environment

VERSION

This document describes version 0.05 of Web::Detect (from Perl distribution Web-Detect), released on 2015-01-03.

SYNOPSIS

use Web::Detect qw(detect_web detect_web_fast);
use IO::Interactive::Tiny ();

if (Web::Detect::detect_web_fast()) {
    # do HTML
}
else {
    # do CLI
    if (IO::Interactive::Tiny::is_interactive()) {
        # prompt/ANSI/etc
    }
    else {
        # do not prompt/plain text/etc
    }
}

DESCRIPTION

Knowing if you are under a web environment or not is very handy.

For example, often you need to decide whether to output HTML or plaintext.

FUNCTIONS

Functions are exportable but are not exported by default.

detect_web() => HASHREF

Return false if not detected running under any web environment.

Return a hash otherwise.

These keys exists if it is detected that we are running under the given environment and the value is suitable as a boolean (always true).

mod_perl
plack
pangea
cpanel

http://cpanel.net

catalyst
dancer
mojo
FCGI.pm
IIS
cgi

General CGI

general

Value can be 1 if it was detected during the first general check, 2 if it was detected during the second general check, and 3 if it was detected under both.

Additionally, psgi is also true if we know its a PSGI environment.

detect_web_fast()

Same as detect_web() but return HASHREF upon first successful check instead of trying all heuristics.

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/Web-Detect.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/sharyanto/perl-Web-Detect.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Web-Detect

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2015 by perlancar@cpan.org.

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