man Apache2::URI (3): Perl API for manipulating URIs

Synopsis

  use Apache2::URI ();
  
  $hostport = $r->construct_server();
  $hostport = $r->construct_server($hostname);
  $hostport = $r->construct_server($hostname, $port);
  $hostport = $r->construct_server($hostname, $port, $pool);
  
  $url = $r->construct_url();
  $url = $r->construct_url($rel_uri);
  $url = $r->construct_url($rel_uri, $pool);
  
  $parsed_uri = $r->parse_uri($uri);
  
  $parsed_uri = $r->parsed_uri();
  
  $url = join '%20', qw(one two three);
  Apache2::URI::unescape_url($url);

Description

While "APR::URI" provides a generic API to dissect, adjust and put together any given URI string, "Apache2::URI" provides an API specific to Apache, by taking the information directly from the $r object. Therefore when manipulating the URI of the current HTTP request usually methods from both classes are used.

API

"Apache2::URI" provides the following functions and methods:

construct_server

Construct a string made of hostname and port

  $hostport = $r->construct_server();
  $hostport = $r->construct_server($hostname);
  $hostport = $r->construct_server($hostname, $port);
  $hostport = $r->construct_server($hostname, $port, $pool);

obj: $r ( "Apache2::RequestRec object" ): The current request object
opt arg1: $hostname ( string ): The hostname of the server.
If that argument is not passed, "$r->get_server_name" is used.
opt arg2: $port ( string ): The port the server is running on.
If that argument is not passed, "$r->get_server_port" is used.
opt arg3: $pool ( "APR::Pool object" ): The pool to allocate the string from.
If that argument is not passed, "$r->pool" is used.
ret: $hostport ( string ): The server's hostport string
since: 2.0.00

Examples:

Assuming that:

  $r->get_server_name == "localhost";
  $r->get_server_port == 8001;

The code:

  $hostport = $r->construct_server();

returns a string:

  localhost:8001

The following code sets the values explicitly:

  $hostport = $r->construct_server("my.example.com", 8888);

and it returns a string:

  my.example.com:8888

construct_url

Build a fully qualified URL from the uri and information in the request rec:

  $url = $r->construct_url();
  $url = $r->construct_url($rel_uri);
  $url = $r->construct_url($rel_uri, $pool);

obj: $r ( "Apache2::RequestRec object" ): The current request object
opt arg1: $rel_uri ( string ): The path to the requested file (it may include a concatenation of path, query and fragment components).
If that argument is not passed, "$r->uri" is used.
opt arg2: $pool ( "APR::Pool object" ): The pool to allocate the URL from
If that argument is not passed, "$r->pool" is used.
ret: $url ( string ): A fully qualified URL
since: 2.0.00

Examples:

Assuming that the request was
```
  http://localhost.localdomain:8529/test?args
```
The code:
```
  my $url = $r->construct_url;
```
returns the string:
```
  http://localhost.localdomain:8529/test
```
notice that the query (args) component is not in the string. You need to append it manually if it's needed.

Assuming that the request was

  http://localhost.localdomain:8529/test?args

The code:

  my $rel_uri = "/foo/bar?tar";
  my $url = $r->construct_url($rel_uri);

returns the string:

  http://localhost.localdomain:8529/foo/bar?tar

parse_uri

Break apart URI (affecting the current request's uri components)

  $r->parse_uri($uri);

obj: $r ( "Apache2::RequestRec object" ): The current request object
arg1: $uri ( string ): The uri to break apart
ret: no return value
warning:: This method has several side-effects explained below
since: 2.0.00

This method call has the following side-effects:

1.: sets "$r->args" to the rest after '?' if such exists in the passed $uri, otherwise sets it to "undef".
2.: sets "$r->uri" to the passed $uri without the "$r->args" part.
3.: sets "$r->hostname" (if not set already) using the ("scheme://host:port") parts of the passed $uri.

parsed_uri

Get the current request's parsed uri object

  my $uri = $r->parsed_uri();

obj: $r ( "Apache2::RequestRec object" ): The current request object
ret: $uri ( "APR::URI object" ): The parsed uri
since: 2.0.00: This object is suitable for using with "APR::URI::rpath"

unescape_url

Unescape URLs

  Apache2::URI::unescape_url($url);

obj: $url ( string ): The URL to unescape
ret: no return value: The argument $url is now unescaped
since: 2.0.00

Example:

  my $url = join '%20', qw(one two three);
  Apache2::URI::unescape_url($url);

$url now contains the string:

  "one two three";

Copyright

mod_perl 2.0 and its core modules are copyrighted under The Apache Software License, Version 2.0.

Authors

The mod_perl development team and numerous contributors.