OpenRequest

$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, );