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LWP::Simple for Raku =================  This is a quick & dirty implementation of a LWP::Simple clone for Raku; it does both `GET` and `POST` requests. Dependencies ============ LWP::Simple depends on the modules MIME::Base64 and URI, which you can find at http://modules.raku.org/. The tests depends on [JSON::Tiny](https://github.com/moritz/json). Write: zef install --deps-only . You'll have to install [IO::Socket::SSL](https://github.com/sergot/io-socket-ssl) via zef install IO::Socket::SSL if you want to work with `https` too. Synopsis ======== ```raku use LWP::Simple; my $content = LWP::Simple.get("https://raku.org"); my $response = LWP::Simple.post("https://somewhere.topo.st", { so => True } ``` Methods ======= ## get ( $url, [ %headers = {}, Bool :$exception ] ) Sends a GET request to the value of `$url`. Returns the content of the return request. Errors are ignored and will result in a `Nil` value unless `$exception` is set to `True`, in which case an `LWP::Simple::Response` object containing the status code and brief description of the error will be returned. Requests are make with a default user agent of `LWP::Simple/$VERSION Raku/$*PERL.compiler.name()` which may get blocked by some web servers. Try overriding the default user agent header by passing a user agent string to the `%headers` argument with something like `{ 'User-Agent' => 'Your User-Agent String' }` if you have trouble getting content back. Current status ============== You can use [HTTP::UserAgent](https://github.com/sergot/http-useragent) instead, with more options. However, this module will do just fine in most cases. The documentation of this module is incomplete. Contributions are appreciated. Use === Use the installed commands: lwp-download.p6 http://eu.httpbin.org Or lwp-download.p6 https://docs.perl6.org If `ÌO::Socket::SSL` has been installed. lwp-get.p6 https://raku.org will instead print to standard output. Known bugs ========== According to [issues raised](https://github.com/raku-community-modules/LWP-Simple/issues/40), [in this repo](https://github.com/raku-community-modules/LWP-Simple/issues/28), there could be some issues with older versions of MacOSx. This issue does not affect the functionality of the module, but just the test script itself, so you can safely install with `--force`. Right now, it's working correctly (as far as tests go) with Windows, MacOSx and Linux. License ======= This distribution is licensed under the terms of the [Artistic 2.0 license](https://www.perlfoundation.org/artistic-license-20.html#). You can find a [copy](LICENSE) in the repository itself.