NAME

LWP::UserAgent::ProgressBar - An LWP user agent that can display a progress bar

SYNOPSIS

my $response = LWP::UserAgent::ProgressBar->new->get_with_progress($url);
$response->is_success or die "couldn't get $url\n";
my $content = $response->content;

DESCRIPTION

This class is a subclass of LWP::UserAgent that provides one additional method, descibed below.

LWP::UserAgent::ProgressBar inherits from LWP::UserAgent.

The superclass LWP::UserAgent defines these methods and functions:

new(), _agent(), _need_proxy(), _new_response(),
_process_colonic_headers(), _request_sanity_check(), agent(), clone(),
conn_cache(), cookie_jar(), credentials(), default_header(),
default_headers(), env_proxy(), from(), get(), get_basic_credentials(),
head(), is_protocol_supported(), max_redirect(), max_size(), mirror(),
no_proxy(), parse_head(), post(), prepare_request(), progress(),
protocols_allowed(), protocols_forbidden(), proxy(), redirect_ok(),
request(), requests_redirectable(), send_request(), simple_request(),
timeout(), use_alarm(), use_eval()

The superclass LWP::MemberMixin defines these methods and functions:

_elem()

METHODS

get_with_progress

Takes the same argumentes as LWP::UserAgent's get(), but overrides the :content_cb and :read_size_hint arguments. During download, a progress bar is displayed.

TAGS

If you talk about this module in blogs, on del.icio.us or anywhere else, please use the lwpuseragentprogressbar tag.

VERSION

This document describes version 0.01 of LWP::UserAgent::ProgressBar.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

No bugs have been reported.

Please report any bugs or feature requests to <bug-lwp-useragent-progressbar@rt.cpan.org>, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org.

INSTALLATION

See perlmodinstall for information and options on installing Perl modules.

AVAILABILITY

The latest version of this module is available from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN). Visit <http://www.perl.com/CPAN/> to find a CPAN site near you. Or see <http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/M/MA/MARCEL/>.

AUTHOR

Marcel Grünauer, <marcel@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2007 by Marcel Grünauer

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