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NAME
       Apache2::Response - Perl API for Apache HTTP request response methods

Synopsis
	 use Apache2::Response ();

	 $r->custom_response(Apache2::Const::FORBIDDEN, "No Entry today");

	 $etag = $r->make_etag($force_weak);
	 $r->set_etag();
	 $status = $r->meets_conditions();

	 $mtime_rat = $r->rationalize_mtime($mtime);
	 $r->set_last_modified($mtime);
	 $r->update_mtime($mtime);

	 $r->send_cgi_header($buffer);

	 $r->set_content_length($length);

	 $ret = $r->set_keepalive();

Description
       "Apache2::Response" provides the Apache request object utilities API
       for dealing with HTTP response generation process.

API
       "Apache2::Response" provides the following functions and/or methods:

   "custom_response"
       Install a custom response handler for a given status

	 $r->custom_response($status, $string);

       obj: $r ( "Apache2::RequestRec object" )
	   The current request

       arg1: $status ( "Apache2::Const constant" )
	   The status for which the custom response should be used (e.g.
	   "Apache2::Const::AUTH_REQUIRED")

       arg2: $string (string)
	   The custom response to use.	This can be a static string, or a URL,
	   full or just the uri path (/foo/bar.txt).

       ret: no return value
       since: 2.0.00

       "custom_response()" doesn't alter the response code, but is used to
       replace the standard response body. For example, here is how to change
       the response body for the access handler failure:

	 package MyApache2::MyShop;
	 use Apache2::Response ();
	 use Apache2::Const -compile => qw(FORBIDDEN OK);
	 sub access {
	     my $r = shift;

	     if (MyApache2::MyShop::tired_squirrels()) {
		 $r->custom_response(Apache2::Const::FORBIDDEN,
		     "It's siesta time, please try later");
		 return Apache2::Const::FORBIDDEN;
	     }

	     return Apache2::Const::OK;
	 }
	 ...

	 # httpd.conf
	 PerlModule MyApache2::MyShop
	 <Location /TestAPI__custom_response>
	     AuthName dummy
	     AuthType none
	     PerlAccessHandler	 MyApache2::MyShop::access
	     PerlResponseHandler MyApache2::MyShop::response
	 </Location>

       When squirrels can't run any more, the handler will return 403, with
       the custom message:

	 It's siesta time, please try later

   "make_etag"
       Construct an entity tag from the resource information.  If it's a real
       file, build in some of the file characteristics.

	 $etag = $r->make_etag($force_weak);

       obj: $r ( "Apache2::RequestRec object" )
	   The current request

       arg1: $force_weak (number)
	   Force the entity tag to be weak - it could be modified again in as
	   short an interval.

       ret: $etag (string)
	   The entity tag

       since: 2.0.00

   "meets_conditions"
       Implements condition "GET" rules for HTTP/1.1 specification.  This
       function inspects the client headers and determines if the response
       fulfills the specified requirements.

	 $status = $r->meets_conditions();

       obj: $r ( "Apache2::RequestRec object" )
	   The current request

       ret: $status ( "Apache2::Const status constant" )
	   "Apache2::Const::OK" if the response fulfills the condition GET
	   rules. Otherwise some other status code (which should be returned
	   to Apache).

       since: 2.0.00

       Refer to the Generating Correct HTTP Headers document for an indepth
       discussion of this method.

   "rationalize_mtime"
       Return the latest rational time from a request/mtime pair.

	 $mtime_rat = $r->rationalize_mtime($mtime);

       obj: $r ( "Apache2::RequestRec object" )
	   The current request

       arg1: $mtime ( time in seconds )
	   The last modified time

       ret: $mtime_rat ( time in seconds )
	   the latest rational time from a request/mtime pair.	Mtime is
	   returned unless it's in the future, in which case we return the
	   current time.

       since: 2.0.00

   "send_cgi_header"
       Parse the header

	 $r->send_cgi_header($buffer);

       obj: $r ( "Apache2::RequestRec object" )
       arg1: $buffer (string)
	   headers and optionally a response body

       ret: no return value
       since: 2.0.00

       This method is really for back-compatibility with mod_perl 1.0. It's
       very inefficient to send headers this way, because of the parsing
       overhead.

       If there is a response body following the headers it'll be handled too
       (as if it was sent via "print()").

       Notice that if only HTTP headers are included they won't be sent until
       some body is sent (again the "send" part is retained from the mod_perl
       1.0 method).

   "set_content_length"
       Set the content length for this request.

	 $r->set_content_length($length);

       obj: $r ( "Apache2::RequestRec object" )
	   The current request

       arg1: $length (integer)
	   The new content length

       ret: no return value
       since: 2.0.00

   "set_etag"
       Set the E-tag outgoing header

	 $r->set_etag();

       obj: $r ( "Apache2::RequestRec object" )
       ret: no return value
       since: 2.0.00

   "set_keepalive"
       Set the keepalive status for this request

	 $ret = $r->set_keepalive();

       obj: $r ( "Apache2::RequestRec object" )
	   The current request

       ret: $ret ( boolean )
	   true if keepalive can be set, false otherwise

       since: 2.0.00

       It's called by "ap_http_header_filter()". For the complete complicated
       logic implemented by this method see httpd-2.0/server/http_protocol.c.

   "set_last_modified"
       sets the "Last-Modified" response header field to the value of the
       mtime field in the request structure -- rationalized to keep it from
       being in the future.

	 $r->set_last_modified($mtime);

       obj: $r ( "Apache2::RequestRec object" )
       opt arg1: $mtime ( time in seconds )
	   if the $mtime argument is passed, $r->update_mtime will be first
	   run with that argument.

       ret: no return value
       since: 2.0.00

   "update_mtime"
       Set the "$r->mtime" field to the specified value if it's later than
       what's already there.

	 $r->update_mtime($mtime);

       obj: $r ( "Apache2::RequestRec object" )
	   The current request

       arg1: $mtime ( time in seconds )
       ret: no return value
       since: 2.0.00

       See also: $r->set_last_modified.

Unsupported API
       "Apache2::Response" also provides auto-generated Perl interface for a
       few other methods which aren't tested at the moment and therefore their
       API is a subject to change. These methods will be finalized later as a
       need arises. If you want to rely on any of the following methods please
       contact the the mod_perl development mailing list so we can help each
       other take the steps necessary to shift the method to an officially
       supported API.

   "send_error_response"
       Send an "error" response back to client. It is used for any response
       that can be generated by the server from the request record.  This
       includes all 204 (no content), 3xx (redirect), 4xx (client error), and
       5xx (server error) messages that have not been redirected to another
       handler via the ErrorDocument feature.

	 $r->send_error_response($recursive_error);

       obj: $r ( "Apache2::RequestRec object" )
	   The current request

       arg1: $recursive_error ( boolean )
	   the error status in case we get an error in the process of trying
	   to deal with an "ErrorDocument" to handle some other error.	In
	   that case, we print the default report for the first thing that
	   went wrong, and more briefly report on the problem with the
	   "ErrorDocument".

       ret: no return value
       since: 2.0.00

       META: it's really an internal Apache method, I'm not quite sure how can
       it be used externally.

   "send_mmap"
       META: Autogenerated - needs to be reviewed/completed

       Send an MMAP'ed file to the client

	 $ret = $r->send_mmap($mm, $offset, $length);

       obj: $r ( "Apache2::RequestRec object" )
	   The current request

       arg1: $mm ("APR::Mmap")
	   The MMAP'ed file to send

       arg2: $offset (number)
	   The offset into the MMAP to start sending

       arg3: $length (integer)
	   The amount of data to send

       ret: $ret (integer)
	   The number of bytes sent

       since: 2.0.00

       META: requires a working APR::Mmap, which is not supported at the
       moment.

See Also
       mod_perl 2.0 documentation.

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.

perl v5.18.1			  2008-04-12   docs::api::Apache2::Response(3)
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