WWW::Mechanize::GZip(3)

NAME
WWW::Mechanize::GZip - tries to fetch webpages with gzip-compression

VERSION
Version 0.14

SYNOPSIS
    use WWW::Mechanize::GZip;

    my $mech = WWW::Mechanize::GZip->new();
    my $response = $mech->get( $url );

    print "x-content-length (before unzip) = ", $response->header('x-content-length');
    print "content-length (after unzip) = ", $response->header('content-length');

DESCRIPTION
The WWW::Mechanize::GZip module tries to fetch a URL by requesting gzip-compression from the webserver.

If the response contains a header with 'Content-Encoding: gzip', it decompresses the response in order to get the original (uncompressed) content.

This module will help to reduce bandwidth fetching webpages, if supported by the webeserver. If the webserver does not support gzip-compression, no decompression will be made.

This modules is a direct subclass of WWW::Mechanize and will therefore support any methods provided by WWW::Mechanize.

The decompression is handled by Compress::Zlib::memGunzip.

  METHODS

prepare_request
    Adds 'Accept-Encoding' => 'gzip' to outgoing HTTP-headers before sending.

send_request
    Unzips response-body if 'content-encoding' is 'gzip' and corrects 'content-length' to unzipped content-length.

SEE ALSO
WWW::Mechanize

Compress::Zlib

AUTHOR
Peter Giessner "cardb@planet-elektronik.de"

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2007, Peter Giessner "cardb@planet-elektronik.de". All rights reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.