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Summary

Bio::Root::HTTPget - module for fallback HTTP get operations when
LWP:: is unavailable

Package variables

Included modules

Inherit

Bio::Root::Root

Synopsis

 use Bio::Root::HTTPget;
 my $web = Bio::Root::HTTPget->new();

 my $response = $web->get('http://localhost');
 $response    = $web->get('http://localhost/images');

 $response    = eval { $web->get('http://fred:secret@localhost/ladies_only/')
                     } or warn $@;

 $response    = eval { $web->get('http://jeff:secret@localhost/ladies_only/')
                     } or warn $@;

 $response    = $web->get('http://localhost/images/navauthors.gif');
 $response    = $web->get(-url=>'http://www.google.com',
 		                    -proxy=>'http://www.modperl.com');

Description

This is basically an last-chance module for doing network HTTP get
requests in situations where more advanced external CPAN modules such
as LWP:: are not installed.
The particular reason this module was developed was so that the Open
Bio Database Access code can fallback to fetching the default registry
files from http://open-bio.org/registry/ without having to depend on
external dependencies like Bundle::LWP for network HTTP access.
The core of this module was written by Lincoln Stein. It can handle proxies
and HTTP-based proxy authentication.

Methods

Methods description

 Title   : get
 Usage   : my $resp = get(-url => $url);
 Function: 
 Returns : string
 Args    : -url     => URL to HTTPGet
           -proxy   => proxy to use
           -user    => username for proxy or authentication
           -pass    => password for proxy or authentication
           -timeout => timeout

 Title   : getFH
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 Title   : proxy
 Usage   : $httpproxy = $db->proxy('http')  or 
           $db->proxy(['http','ftp'], 'http://myproxy' )
 Function: Get/Set a proxy for use of proxy. Defaults to environment variable
           http_proxy if present.
 Returns : a string indicating the proxy
 Args    : $protocol : string for the protocol to set/get
           $proxyurl : url of the proxy to use for the specified protocol
           $username : username (if proxy requires authentication)
           $password : password (if proxy requires authentication)

 Title   : clear_proxy
 Usage   : my $old_prozy = $db->clear_proxy('http')
 Function: Unsets (clears) the proxy for the protocol indicated 
 Returns : a string indicating the old proxy value
 Args    : $protocol : string for the protocol to clear

 Title   : authentication
 Usage   : $db->authentication($user,$pass)
 Function: Get/Set authentication credentials
 Returns : Array of user/pass 
 Args    : Array or user/pass

Methods code

sub get {

    my $self;
    if($_[0] && (ref($_[0]) or $_[0] =~ /^Bio::/)) {
	$self = shift;
    }
    
    my ($url,$proxy,$timeout,$auth_user,$auth_pass) = 
	__PACKAGE__->_rearrange([qw(URL PROXY TIMEOUT USER PASS)],@_);
    my $dest  = $proxy || $url;

    my ($host,$port,$path,$user,$pass) 
	= _http_parse_url($dest) or __PACKAGE__->throw("invalid URL $url");
    $auth_user ||= $user;
    $auth_pass ||= $pass;
    if ($self) {
        unless ($proxy) {
            $proxy = $self->proxy;
        }
        unless ($auth_user) { 
            ($auth_user, $auth_pass) = $self->authentication;
        }
    }
    $path = $url if $proxy;
    
    # set up the connection
    my $socket = _http_connect($host,$port) or __PACKAGE__->throw("can't connect: $@");

    # the request
    print $socket "GET $path HTTP/1.0$CRLF";
    print $socket "User-Agent: Bioperl fallback fetcher/1.0$CRLF";
    # Support virtual hosts
    print $socket "HOST: $host$CRLF";

    if ($auth_user && $auth_pass) { # authentication information
	my $token = _encode_base64("$auth_user:$auth_pass");
	print $socket "Authorization: Basic $token$CRLF";
    }
    print $socket "$CRLF";

    # read the response
    my $response;
    {
	local $/ = "$CRLF$CRLF";
	$response = <$socket>;
    }

    my ($status_line,@other_lines) = split $CRLF,$response;
    my ($stat_code,$stat_msg) = $status_line =~ m!^HTTP/1\.[01] (\d+) (.+)!
	or __PACKAGE__->throw("invalid response from web server: got $response");

    my %headers = map {/^(\S+): (.+)/} @other_lines;
    if ($stat_code == 302 || $stat_code == 301) { # redirect
	my $location = $headers{Location} or 
            __PACKAGE__->throw("invalid redirect: no Location header");
	return get(-url => $location, -proxy => $proxy, -timeout => $timeout, -user => $auth_user, -pass => $auth_pass); # recursive call
    }

    elsif ($stat_code == 401) { # auth required
	my $auth_required = $headers{'WWW-Authenticate'};
	$auth_required =~ /^Basic realm="([^\"]+)"/
	    or __PACKAGE__->throw("server requires unknown type of".
                                  " authentication: $auth_required");
	__PACKAGE__->throw("request failed: $status_line, realm = $1");
    }

    elsif ($stat_code != 200) {
	__PACKAGE__->throw("request failed: $status_line");
    }

    $response = '';
    while (1) {
	my $bytes = read($socket,$response,2048,length $response);
	last unless $bytes > 0;
    }

    $response;

}

sub getFH {

  my $self;
    if($_[0] && (ref($_[0]) or $_[0] =~ /^Bio::/)) {
	$self = shift;
    }
  my ($url,$proxy,$timeout,$auth_user,$auth_pass) = 
    __PACKAGE__->_rearrange([qw(URL PROXY TIMEOUT USER PASS)],@_);
  my $dest  = $proxy || $url;

  my ($host,$port,$path,$user,$pass) 
    = _http_parse_url($dest) or __PACKAGE__->throw("invalid URL $url");
  $auth_user ||= $user;
  $auth_pass ||= $pass;
  $path = $url if $proxy;

  # set up the connection
  my $socket = _http_connect($host,$port) or __PACKAGE__->throw("can't connect: $@");

  # the request
  print $socket "GET $path HTTP/1.0$CRLF";
  print $socket "User-Agent: Bioperl fallback fetcher/1.0$CRLF";
  # Support virtual hosts
  print $socket "HOST: $host$CRLF";

  if ($auth_user && $auth_pass) {  # authentication information
    my $token = _encode_base64("$auth_user:$auth_pass");
    print $socket "Authorization: Basic $token$CRLF";
  }
  print $socket "$CRLF";

  # read the response
  my $response;
  {
    local $/ = "$CRLF$CRLF";
    $response = <$socket>;
  }

  my ($status_line,@other_lines) = split $CRLF,$response;
  my ($stat_code,$stat_msg) = $status_line =~ m!^HTTP/1\.[01] (\d+) (.+)!
    or __PACKAGE__->throw("invalid response from web server: got $response");

  my %headers = map {/^(\S+): (.+)/} @other_lines;
  if ($stat_code == 302 || $stat_code == 301) {  # redirect
    my $location = $headers{Location} or 
        __PACKAGE__->throw("invalid redirect: no Location header");
    return getFH(-url => $location, -proxy => $proxy, -timeout => $timeout, -user => $auth_user, -pass => $auth_pass);  # recursive call
  }

  elsif ($stat_code == 401) { # auth required
    my $auth_required = $headers{'WWW-Authenticate'};
    $auth_required =~ /^Basic realm="([^\"]+)"/
      or __PACKAGE__->throw("server requires unknown type of ".
                            "authentication: $auth_required");
    __PACKAGE__->throw("request failed: $status_line, realm = $1");
  }

  elsif ($stat_code != 200) {
    __PACKAGE__->throw("request failed: $status_line");
  }

  # Now that we are reasonably sure the socket and request
  # are OK we pass the socket back as a filehandle so it can
  # be processed by the caller...

  $socket;

}

sub _http_parse_url {

  my $self;
    if($_[0] && (ref($_[0]) or $_[0] =~ /^Bio::/)) {
	$self = shift;
    }
  my $url = shift;
  my ($user,$pass,$hostent,$path) = 
    $url =~ m!^http://(?:([^:]+):([^:]+)@)?([^/]+)(/?[^\#]*)! or return;
  $path ||= '/';
  my ($host,$port) = split(':',$hostent);
  return ($host,$port||80,$path,$user,$pass);

}

sub _http_connect {

  my ($host,$port,$timeout) = @_;
  my $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(Proto     => 'tcp',
                                   Type      => SOCK_STREAM,
				   PeerHost  => $host,
				   PeerPort  => $port,
				   Timeout   => $timeout,
				  );
  $sock;

}

sub _encode_base64 {

    my $self;
    if($_[0] && (ref($_[0]) or $_[0] =~ /^Bio::/)) {
	$self = shift;
    }
    my $res = "";
    my $eol = $_[1];
    $eol = "\n" unless defined $eol;
    pos($_[0]) = 0;                          # ensure start at the beginning

    $res = join '', map( pack('u',$_)=~ /^.(\S*)/, ($_[0]=~/(.{1,45})/gs));

    $res =~ tr|` -_|AA-Za-z0-9+/|;               # `# help emacs
    # fix padding at the end
    my $padding = (3 - length($_[0]) % 3) % 3;
    $res =~ s/.{$padding}$/'=' x $padding/e if $padding;
    # break encoded string into lines of no more than 76 characters each
    if (length $eol) {
        $res =~ s/(.{1,76})/$1$eol/g;
    }
    return $res;

}

sub proxy {

    my $self;
    if($_[0] && (ref($_[0]) or $_[0] =~ /^Bio::/)) {
	$self = shift;
    }
    my ($protocol,$proxy,$username,$password) = @_;
    my $atts = ref($self) ? $self :\% attributes;
    $protocol ||= 'http';
    if (!$proxy) {
        if (defined $ENV{http_proxy}) {
            $proxy = $ENV{http_proxy};
            if ($proxy =~ /\@/) {
                ($username, $password, $proxy) = $proxy =~ m{http://(\S+):(\S+)\@(\S+)};
                $proxy = 'http://'.$proxy;
            }
        }
    }
    if (defined $proxy) {
        # default to class method call
        __PACKAGE__->authentication($username, $password) 
        if ($username && $password);
        $atts->{'_proxy'}->{$protocol} = $proxy;
    }
    return $atts->{'_proxy'}->{$protocol};

}

sub clear_proxy {

    my $self;
    if($_[0] && (ref($_[0]) or $_[0] =~ /^Bio::/)) {
        $self = shift;
    }
    my ($protocol) = @_;
    my $atts = ref($self) ? $self :\% attributes;
    $protocol ||= 'http';
    delete $atts->{'_proxy'}->{$protocol};

}

sub authentication {

    my $self;
    if($_[0] && (ref($_[0]) or $_[0] =~ /^Bio::/)) {
	$self = shift;
    }
    my $atts = ref($self) ? $self :\% attributes;
    if (@_) {
	my ($u,$p) = @_;
	my $atts = ref($self) ? $self :\% attributes;
     
	$atts->{'_authentication'} = [ $u,$p];
    }
    return @{$atts->{'_authentication'} || []};
}

}

1;

}

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The rest of the documentation details each of the object
methods. Internal methods are usually preceded with a _