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HTTP-Proxy-0.16
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Changes for version 0.16 - 2005-09-01

  • ENHANCEMENTS
    • the new HTTP::Proxy::Engine class and its subclasses now handle the life and death of child processes
    • the Content-Length header is now removed only if body filters will be applied on the response body
    • HTTP::Proxy now supports some Apache-like attributes (start_servers, max_clients, max_requests_per_child, min_spare_servers, max_spare_servers, keep_alive, max_keep_alive_requests, keep_alive_timeout)
    • added support for ALL WebDAV/DeltaV methods
    • the query argument to push_filter(), added in 0.14, should now work (thanks to Simon Cozens for spotting the problem)
    • the proxy now has a stash, which is a hash where filters can store data (possibly to share it). (Requested by Mark Fowler) Warning: since the proxy forks for each TCP connection, the data is only shared between filters in the same child process.
  • DEPRECATION
    • the maxchild, maxconn and maxserve accessors are now deprecated. They will disappear in 0.17:
      • maxchild has no replacement (should be handled by the engine)
      • maxconn becomes max_connections
      • maxserve becomes max_keep_alive_requests
    • Information regarding the way the engine should behave must passed in the constructor or directly to the engine
  • NEW METHODS
    • $proxy->engine() return the HTTP::Proxy::Engine instance
    • $proxy->new_connection() increase the TCP connections counter (should only be used by HTTP::Proxy::Engine object)
  • FIXES
    • Makefile.PL was not playing nice with Build.PL in the previous distributions. This has been fixed. Sorry for the inconvenience
    • no more annoying "getsockname() on closed socket GEN0" warnings (they appeared in 0.14)
  • Win32 SUPPORT
    • Win32 is now supported! badly supported, but supported...
    • until someone writes a decent engine for Win32, the default Win32 engine will be HTTP::Proxy::Engine::NoFork, which can only handle a single TCP connection at a time
  • EXAMPLES
    • eg/yahoogroups.pl - removes ad interruptions from Yahoo! Groups
    • eg/https.pl - peek/poke at encrypted web pages
    • eg/logger.pl - improved the logger script

Modules

HTTP::Proxy
A pure Perl HTTP proxy
HTTP::Proxy::BodyFilter
A base class for HTTP messages body filters
HTTP::Proxy::BodyFilter::complete
A filter that passes on a complete body or nothing
HTTP::Proxy::BodyFilter::htmlparser
Filter using HTML::Parser
HTTP::Proxy::BodyFilter::htmltext
A filter to transmogrify HTML text
HTTP::Proxy::BodyFilter::lines
A filter that outputs only complete lines
HTTP::Proxy::BodyFilter::save
A filter that saves transfered data to a file
HTTP::Proxy::BodyFilter::simple
A class for creating simple filters
HTTP::Proxy::BodyFilter::tags
A filter that outputs only complete tags
HTTP::Proxy::Engine
Generic child process manager engine for HTTP::Proxy
HTTP::Proxy::Engine::Legacy
The "older" HTTP::Proxy engine
HTTP::Proxy::Engine::NoFork
A basic, non forking HTTP::Proxy engine
HTTP::Proxy::HeaderFilter
A base class for HTTP message header filters
HTTP::Proxy::HeaderFilter::simple
A class for creating simple filters
HTTP::Proxy::HeaderFilter::standard
An internal filter to respect RFC2616

Provides

HTTP::Proxy::FilterStack
in lib/HTTP/Proxy.pm

Examples

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