#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#
# Copyright (C) 2000, Paul Fenwick <pjf@cpan.org>
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
# 02110-1301, USA
#
# This module defines our own LWP::UserAgent, in particular it allows
# user-defined headers to be set which will be automatically added to
# new HTTP requests. This is particularly important if you wish to get
# through authenticated proxies and the like.
package Finance::Quote::UserAgent;
require 5.005;
use strict;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Headers;
use vars qw/@ISA /;
our $VERSION = '1.52'; # VERSION
@ISA = qw/LWP::UserAgent/;
# A very simple extension. When we generate a LWP::UserAgent object,
# we add an extra field called finance_quote_headers which stores an
# HTTP::Headers object.
sub new {
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent::new(@_);
$ua->{finance_quote_headers} = HTTP::Headers->new();
return $ua;
}
# This returns the HTTP::Headers object, so the user can play with it.
sub default_headers {
my $this = shift;
return $this->{finance_quote_headers};
}
# Over-ride for the simple_request method. This sets the user-supplied
# template headers if they have not already been set in the request.
sub simple_request {
my ($this, $request, @args) = @_;
my $new_request = $this->_add_custom_headers($request);
return $this->SUPER::simple_request($new_request,@args);
}
# Over-ride for the request method. This also sets the user-supplied
# template headers if they have not already been set in the request.
sub request {
my ($this, $request, @args) = @_;
my $new_request = $this->_add_custom_headers($request);
return $this->SUPER::request($new_request,@args);
}
# _add_custom_headers is a private method which does the dirty work
# of copying across headers and other fun things.
#
# We take the user-defined template, and then overlay the request over the
# top of it. This should get us by in most situations.
sub _add_custom_headers {
my ($this, $request) = @_;
my $header_template = $this->default_headers;
my $new_request = $request->clone; # Modifying the original is rude.
# Copy things that are in the template that we don't have
# defined in the request.
$header_template->scan(sub {
$new_request->header($_[0],$_[1]) unless
defined ($new_request->header($_[0]));
});
return $new_request;
}
# If users wish to place their username and proxy password(!) into
# the "http_proxy_auth_clear" environment variable, then we'll
# read it out and automatically use it for proxy requests.
sub env_proxy {
my ($this, @args) = @_;
if ($ENV{http_proxy_auth_clear}) {
$this->default_headers->proxy_authorization_basic(
split(/:/,$ENV{http_proxy_auth_clear}));
}
$this->SUPER::env_proxy(@_);
}
1;