$http->OpenRequest(requestobject, [path, method, version, referer, accept, flags, context])
$http->OpenRequest($requestobject, hashref)
Opens an HTTP request and saves it as $requestobject. Returns undef on error, or a number if the
connection was successful. You can then use one of
the AddHeader, SendRequest, QueryInfo, QueryDataAvailable,
and ReadFile methods on the newly-created requestobject.
The optional parameters and their values are:
- path
The object to request. This is generally a filename, an executable module, etc.
The default is "/".
- method
The method to use, which can be GET, POST, HEAD, or PUT. Default is GET.
- version
The HTTP version. Default is HTTP/1.0.
- referer
The URL of the document from which the URL in the request was obtained.
- accept
The content types accepted. They must be separated by a "\0" (ASCII zero).
Default types are "text/* image/gif image/jpeg."
- flags
Additional flags affecting the behavior of the function.
- context
A number to identify this operation if it is asynchronous.
See SetStatusCallback and GetStatusCallback for more information on asynchronous operations.
A reference to a hash containing the previous list of parameters can
also be supplied to this method.
%hash=(
"path" => "path",
"method" => "method",
"version" => "version",
"referer" => "referer",
"accept" => "accept",
"flags" => flags,
"context" => context,
);
