WWW::Mechanize::CGI - Use WWW::Mechanize with CGI applications.

    use CGI;
    use WWW::Mechanize::CGI;

    # Using a external CGI application

    $mech = WWW::Mechanize::CGI->new;
    $mech->cgi_application('/path/to/cgi/executable.cgi');

    $response = $mech->get('http://localhost/');

    


    # Using a inline CGI callback

    $mech = WWW::Mechanize::CGI->new;
    $mech->cgi( sub {

        my $q = CGI->new;

        print $q->header,
              $q->start_html('Hello World'),
              $q->h1('Hello World'),
              $q->end_html;
    });

    $response = $mech->get('http://localhost/');

Provides a convenient way of using CGI applications with WWW::Mechanize.

new

Behaves like, and calls, WWW::Mechanize's new method. Any parms passed in get passed to WWW::Mechanize's constructor.

cgi

Coderef to be used to execute the CGI application.

cgi_application('/path/to/cgi/executable.cgi')

Path to CGI executable.

env( [, key => value ] )

Set/Get additional environment variables to be used in CGI. Takes a hash and returns a hash.

    $mech->env( DOCUMENT_ROOT => '/export/www/myapp' );

fork

Set to a true value if you want to fork() before executing CGI.

Test::WWW::Mechanize::CGI

WWW::Mechanize

LWP::UserAgent

HTTP::Request::AsCGI

Christian Hansen, ch@ngmedia.com

This library is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as perl itself.