=head1 NAME AnyEvent::HTTP - simple but non-blocking HTTP/HTTPS client =head1 SYNOPSIS use AnyEvent::HTTP; http_get "http://www.nethype.de/", sub { print $_[1] }; # ... do something else here =head1 DESCRIPTION This module is an L user, you need to make sure that you use and run a supported event loop. This module implements a simple, stateless and non-blocking HTTP client. It supports GET, POST and other request methods, cookies and more, all on a very low level. It can follow redirects supports proxies and automatically limits the number of connections to the values specified in the RFC. It should generally be a "good client" that is enough for most HTTP tasks. Simple tasks should be simple, but complex tasks should still be possible as the user retains control over request and response headers. The caller is responsible for authentication management, cookies (if the simplistic implementation in this module doesn't suffice), referer and other high-level protocol details for which this module offers only limited support. =head2 METHODS =over 4 =cut package AnyEvent::HTTP; use strict; no warnings; use Carp; use AnyEvent (); use AnyEvent::Util (); use AnyEvent::Socket (); use AnyEvent::Handle (); use base Exporter::; our $VERSION = '1.04'; our @EXPORT = qw(http_get http_post http_head http_request); our $USERAGENT = "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AnyEvent::HTTP/$VERSION; +http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/AnyEvent)"; our $MAX_RECURSE = 10; our $MAX_PERSISTENT = 8; our $PERSISTENT_TIMEOUT = 2; our $TIMEOUT = 300; # changing these is evil our $MAX_PERSISTENT_PER_HOST = 2; our $MAX_PER_HOST = 4; our $PROXY; our $ACTIVE = 0; my %KA_COUNT; # number of open keep-alive connections per host my %CO_SLOT; # number of open connections, and wait queue, per host =item http_get $url, key => value..., $cb->($data, $headers) Executes an HTTP-GET request. See the http_request function for details on additional parameters. =item http_head $url, key => value..., $cb->($data, $headers) Executes an HTTP-HEAD request. See the http_request function for details on additional parameters. =item http_post $url, $body, key => value..., $cb->($data, $headers) Executes an HTTP-POST request with a request body of C<$body>. See the http_request function for details on additional parameters. =item http_request $method => $url, key => value..., $cb->($data, $headers) Executes a HTTP request of type C<$method> (e.g. C, C). The URL must be an absolute http or https URL. The callback will be called with the response data as first argument (or C if it wasn't available due to errors), and a hash-ref with response headers as second argument. All the headers in that hash are lowercased. In addition to the response headers, the "pseudo-headers" C, C and C contain the three parts of the HTTP Status-Line of the same name. The pseudo-header C contains the original URL (which can differ from the requested URL when following redirects). If the server sends a header multiple lines, then their contents will be joined together with C<\x00>. If an internal error occurs, such as not being able to resolve a hostname, then C<$data> will be C, C<< $headers->{Status} >> will be C<599> and the C pseudo-header will contain an error message. A typical callback might look like this: sub { my ($body, $hdr) = @_; if ($hdr->{Status} =~ /^2/) { ... everything should be ok } else { print "error, $hdr->{Status} $hdr->{Reason}\n"; } } Additional parameters are key-value pairs, and are fully optional. They include: =over 4 =item recurse => $count (default: $MAX_RECURSE) Whether to recurse requests or not, e.g. on redirects, authentication retries and so on, and how often to do so. =item headers => hashref The request headers to use. Currently, C may provide its own C, C, C and C headers and will provide defaults for C and C. =item timeout => $seconds The time-out to use for various stages - each connect attempt will reset the timeout, as will read or write activity. Default timeout is 5 minutes. =item proxy => [$host, $port[, $scheme]] or undef Use the given http proxy for all requests. If not specified, then the default proxy (as specified by C<$ENV{http_proxy}>) is used. C<$scheme> must be either missing or C for HTTP, or C for HTTPS. =item body => $string The request body, usually empty. Will be-sent as-is (future versions of this module might offer more options). =item cookie_jar => $hash_ref Passing this parameter enables (simplified) cookie-processing, loosely based on the original netscape specification. The C<$hash_ref> must be an (initially empty) hash reference which will get updated automatically. It is possible to save the cookie_jar to persistent storage with something like JSON or Storable, but this is not recommended, as expire times are currently being ignored. Note that this cookie implementation is not of very high quality, nor meant to be complete. If you want complete cookie management you have to do that on your own. C is meant as a quick fix to get some cookie-using sites working. Cookies are a privacy disaster, do not use them unless required to. =back Example: make a simple HTTP GET request for http://www.nethype.de/ http_request GET => "http://www.nethype.de/", sub { my ($body, $hdr) = @_; print "$body\n"; }; Example: make a HTTP HEAD request on https://www.google.com/, use a timeout of 30 seconds. http_request GET => "https://www.google.com", timeout => 30, sub { my ($body, $hdr) = @_; use Data::Dumper; print Dumper $hdr; } ; =cut sub _slot_schedule; sub _slot_schedule($) { my $host = shift; while ($CO_SLOT{$host}[0] < $MAX_PER_HOST) { if (my $cb = shift @{ $CO_SLOT{$host}[1] }) { # somebody wants that slot ++$CO_SLOT{$host}[0]; ++$ACTIVE; $cb->(AnyEvent::Util::guard { --$ACTIVE; --$CO_SLOT{$host}[0]; _slot_schedule $host; }); } else { # nobody wants the slot, maybe we can forget about it delete $CO_SLOT{$host} unless $CO_SLOT{$host}[0]; last; } } } # wait for a free slot on host, call callback sub _get_slot($$) { push @{ $CO_SLOT{$_[0]}[1] }, $_[1]; _slot_schedule $_[0]; } sub http_request($$@) { my $cb = pop; my ($method, $url, %arg) = @_; my %hdr; $method = uc $method; if (my $hdr = $arg{headers}) { while (my ($k, $v) = each %$hdr) { $hdr{lc $k} = $v; } } my $recurse = exists $arg{recurse} ? delete $arg{recurse} : $MAX_RECURSE; return $cb->(undef, { Status => 599, Reason => "recursion limit reached", URL => $url }) if $recurse < 0; my $proxy = $arg{proxy} || $PROXY; my $timeout = $arg{timeout} || $TIMEOUT; $hdr{"user-agent"} ||= $USERAGENT; my ($scheme, $authority, $upath, $query, $fragment) = $url =~ m|(?:([^:/?#]+):)?(?://([^/?#]*))?([^?#]*)(?:\?([^#]*))?(?:#(.*))?|; $scheme = lc $scheme; my $uport = $scheme eq "http" ? 80 : $scheme eq "https" ? 443 : return $cb->(undef, { Status => 599, Reason => "only http and https URL schemes supported", URL => $url }); $hdr{referer} ||= "$scheme://$authority$upath"; # leave out fragment and query string, just a heuristic $authority =~ /^(?: .*\@ )? ([^\@:]+) (?: : (\d+) )?$/x or return $cb->(undef, { Status => 599, Reason => "unparsable URL", URL => $url }); my $uhost = $1; $uport = $2 if defined $2; $uhost =~ s/^\[(.*)\]$/$1/; $upath .= "?$query" if length $query; $upath =~ s%^/?%/%; # cookie processing if (my $jar = $arg{cookie_jar}) { %$jar = () if $jar->{version} < 1; my @cookie; while (my ($chost, $v) = each %$jar) { next unless $chost eq substr $uhost, -length $chost; next unless $chost =~ /^\./; while (my ($cpath, $v) = each %$v) { next unless $cpath eq substr $upath, 0, length $cpath; while (my ($k, $v) = each %$v) { next if $scheme ne "https" && exists $v->{secure}; push @cookie, "$k=$v->{value}"; } } } $hdr{cookie} = join "; ", @cookie if @cookie; } my ($rhost, $rport, $rpath); # request host, port, path if ($proxy) { ($rhost, $rport, $scheme) = @$proxy; $rpath = $url; } else { ($rhost, $rport, $rpath) = ($uhost, $uport, $upath); $hdr{host} = $uhost; } $hdr{"content-length"} = length $arg{body}; my %state = (connect_guard => 1); _get_slot $uhost, sub { $state{slot_guard} = shift; return unless $state{connect_guard}; $state{connect_guard} = AnyEvent::Socket::tcp_connect $rhost, $rport, sub { $state{fh} = shift or return $cb->(undef, { Status => 599, Reason => "$!", URL => $url }); delete $state{connect_guard}; # reduce memory usage, save a tree # get handle $state{handle} = new AnyEvent::Handle fh => $state{fh}, ($scheme eq "https" ? (tls => "connect") : ()); # limit the number of persistent connections if ($KA_COUNT{$_[1]} < $MAX_PERSISTENT_PER_HOST) { ++$KA_COUNT{$_[1]}; $state{handle}{ka_count_guard} = AnyEvent::Util::guard { --$KA_COUNT{$_[1]} }; $hdr{connection} = "keep-alive"; delete $hdr{connection}; # keep-alive not yet supported } else { delete $hdr{connection}; } # (re-)configure handle $state{handle}->timeout ($timeout); $state{handle}->on_error (sub { my $errno = "$!"; %state = (); $cb->(undef, { Status => 599, Reason => $errno, URL => $url }); }); $state{handle}->on_eof (sub { %state = (); $cb->(undef, { Status => 599, Reason => "unexpected end-of-file", URL => $url }); }); # send request $state{handle}->push_write ( "$method $rpath HTTP/1.0\015\012" . (join "", map "$_: $hdr{$_}\015\012", keys %hdr) . "\015\012" . (delete $arg{body}) ); %hdr = (); # reduce memory usage, save a kitten # status line $state{handle}->push_read (line => qr/\015?\012/, sub { $_[1] =~ /^HTTP\/([0-9\.]+) \s+ ([0-9]{3}) (?: \s+ ([^\015\012]*) )?/ix or return (%state = (), $cb->(undef, { Status => 599, Reason => "invalid server response ($_[1])", URL => $url })); my %hdr = ( # response headers HTTPVersion => "\x00$1", Status => "\x00$2", Reason => "\x00$3", URL => "\x00$url" ); # headers, could be optimized a bit $state{handle}->unshift_read (line => qr/\015?\012\015?\012/, sub { for ("$_[1]\012") { # we support spaces in field names, as lotus domino # creates them. $hdr{lc $1} .= "\x00$2" while /\G ([^:\000-\037]+): [\011\040]* ((?: [^\015\012]+ | \015?\012[\011\040] )*) \015?\012 /gxc; /\G$/ or return (%state = (), $cb->(undef, { Status => 599, Reason => "garbled response headers", URL => $url })); } substr $_, 0, 1, "" for values %hdr; my $finish = sub { %state = (); # set-cookie processing if ($arg{cookie_jar} && exists $hdr{"set-cookie"}) { for (split /\x00/, $hdr{"set-cookie"}) { my ($cookie, @arg) = split /;\s*/; my ($name, $value) = split /=/, $cookie, 2; my %kv = (value => $value, map { split /=/, $_, 2 } @arg); my $cdom = (delete $kv{domain}) || $uhost; my $cpath = (delete $kv{path}) || "/"; $cdom =~ s/^.?/./; # make sure it starts with a "." next if $cdom =~ /\.$/; # this is not rfc-like and not netscape-like. go figure. my $ndots = $cdom =~ y/.//; next if $ndots < ($cdom =~ /\.[^.][^.]\.[^.][^.]$/ ? 3 : 2); # store it $arg{cookie_jar}{version} = 1; $arg{cookie_jar}{$cdom}{$cpath}{$name} = \%kv; } } # microsoft and other shitheads don't give a shit for following standards, # try to support some common forms of broken Location headers. if ($_[1]{location} !~ /^(?: $ | [^:\/?\#]+ : )/x) { $_[1]{location} =~ s/^\.\/+//; my $url = "$scheme://$uhost:$uport"; unless ($_[1]{location} =~ s/^\///) { $url .= $upath; $url =~ s/\/[^\/]*$//; } $_[1]{location} = "$url/$_[1]{location}"; } if ($_[1]{Status} =~ /^30[12]$/ && $recurse && $method ne "POST") { # apparently, mozilla et al. just change POST to GET here # more research is needed before we do the same http_request ($method, $_[1]{location}, %arg, recurse => $recurse - 1, $cb); } elsif ($_[1]{Status} == 303 && $recurse) { # even http/1.1 is unlear on how to mutate the method $method = "GET" unless $method eq "HEAD"; http_request ($method => $_[1]{location}, %arg, recurse => $recurse - 1, $cb); } elsif ($_[1]{Status} == 307 && $recurse && $method =~ /^(?:GET|HEAD)$/) { http_request ($method => $_[1]{location}, %arg, recurse => $recurse - 1, $cb); } else { $cb->($_[0], $_[1]); } }; if ($hdr{Status} =~ /^(?:1..|204|304)$/ or $method eq "HEAD") { $finish->(undef, \%hdr); } else { if (exists $hdr{"content-length"}) { $_[0]->unshift_read (chunk => $hdr{"content-length"}, sub { # could cache persistent connection now if ($hdr{connection} =~ /\bkeep-alive\b/i) { # but we don't, due to misdesigns, this is annoyingly complex }; $finish->($_[1], \%hdr); }); } else { # too bad, need to read until we get an error or EOF, # no way to detect winged data. $_[0]->on_error (sub { $finish->($_[0]{rbuf}, \%hdr); }); $_[0]->on_eof (undef); $_[0]->on_read (sub { }); } } }); }); }, sub { $timeout }; }; defined wantarray && AnyEvent::Util::guard { %state = () } } sub http_get($@) { unshift @_, "GET"; &http_request } sub http_head($@) { unshift @_, "HEAD"; &http_request } sub http_post($$@) { my $url = shift; unshift @_, "POST", $url, "body"; &http_request } =back =head2 GLOBAL FUNCTIONS AND VARIABLES =over 4 =item AnyEvent::HTTP::set_proxy "proxy-url" Sets the default proxy server to use. The proxy-url must begin with a string of the form C (optionally C). =item $AnyEvent::HTTP::MAX_RECURSE The default value for the C request parameter (default: C<10>). =item $AnyEvent::HTTP::USERAGENT The default value for the C header (the default is C). =item $AnyEvent::HTTP::MAX_PERSISTENT The maximum number of persistent connections to keep open (default: 8). Not implemented currently. =item $AnyEvent::HTTP::PERSISTENT_TIMEOUT The maximum time to cache a persistent connection, in seconds (default: 2). Not implemented currently. =item $AnyEvent::HTTP::ACTIVE The number of active connections. This is not the number of currently running requests, but the number of currently open and non-idle TCP connections. This number of can be useful for load-leveling. =back =cut sub set_proxy($) { $PROXY = [$2, $3 || 3128, $1] if $_[0] =~ m%^(https?):// ([^:/]+) (?: : (\d*) )?%ix; } # initialise proxy from environment set_proxy $ENV{http_proxy}; =head1 SEE ALSO L. =head1 AUTHOR Marc Lehmann http://home.schmorp.de/ =cut 1