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HTML(3) |
MIME::Lite::HTML - Provide routine to transform a HTML page in a MIME-Lite mail
perl -MMIME::Lite::HTML -e '
new MIME::Lite::HTML
From => "MIME-Lite\@alianwebserver.com",
To => "alian\@cpan.org",
Url => "http://localhost/server-status";'
This module is a Perl mail client interface for sending message that support
HTML format and build them for you.. This module provide routine to transform
a HTML page in MIME::Lite mail. So you need this module to use MIME-Lite-HTML
possibilities
The job done is:
- Get the file (LWP) if needed
- Parse page to find include images (gif, jpg, flash)
- Attach them to mail with adequat header if asked (default)
- Include external CSS,Javascript file
- Replace relative url with absolute one
- Build the final MIME-Lite object with each part found
Did you alread see link like "Send this page to a friend" ?. With this
module, you can do script that to this in 3 lines.
It can be used too in a HTML newsletter. You make a classic HTML
page, and give just url to MIME::Lite::HTML.
MIME-Lite-HTML use a MIME-Lite object, and RFC2557 construction:
If images and text are present, construction use is:
--> multipart/alternative
------> text/plain
------> multipart/related
-------------> text/html
-------------> each images
If no images but text is present, this is that:
---> multipart/alternative
-------> text/plain if present
-------> text/html
If images but no text, this is:
---> multipart/related
-------> text/html
-------> each images
If no images and no text, this is:
---> text/html
Additionnal documentation can be found here:
- MIME-lite module
- RFC 822, RFC 1521, RFC 1522 and specially RFC 2557 (MIME Encapsulation of
Aggregate Documents, such as HTML)
HTML in mail is not full supported so this module can't work with all email
clients. If some client recognize HTML, they didn't support images include in
HTML. So in fact, they recognize multipart/relative but not multipart/related.
- Netscape Messager (Linux-Windows)
- 100% ok
- Outlook Express (Windows-Mac)
- 100% ok. Mac work only with Content-Location header. Thx to Steve Benbow
for give mr this feedback and for his test.
- Eudora (Windows)
- If this module just send HTML and text, (without images), 100% ok.
With images, Eudora didn't recognize multipart/related part as
describe in RFC 2557 even if he can read his own HTML mail. So if images
are present in HTML part, text and HTML part will be displayed both,
text part in first. Two additional headers will be displayed in HTML
part too in this case. Version 1.0 of this module correct major problem
of headers displayed with image include in HTML part.
- KMail (Linux)
- If this module just send HTML and text, (without images), 100% ok.
In other case, Kmail didn't support image include in HTML. So
if you set in KMail "Prefer HTML to text", it display HTML
with images broken. Otherwise, it display text part.
- Pegasus (Windows)
- If this module just send HTML and text, (without images), 100% ok.
Pegasus didn't support images in HTML. When it find a
multipart/related message, it ignore it, and display text part.
If you find others mail client who support (or not support)
MIME-Lite-HTML module, give me some feedback ! If you want be sure that your
mail can be read by maximum of people, (so not only OE and Netscape), don't
include images in your mail, and use a text buffer too. If multipart/related
mail is not recognize, multipart/alternative can be read by the most of mail
client.
Just do in DOS "shell":
c:\ ppm
> set repository alian http://www.alianwebserver.com/perl/CPAN
> install MIME-Lite-HTML
> quit
Subscribe on http://www.alianwebserver.com/cgi-bin/news_mlh.cgi
- new(%hash)
- Create a new instance of MIME::Lite::HTML.
The hash can have this key : [Url], [Proxy], [Debug],
[IncludeType],
[HashTemplate], [LoginDetails], [TextCharset], [HTMLCharset],
[TextEncoding], [HTMLEncoding], [remove_jscript]
- Url
- ... is url to parse and send. If this param is found, call of parse
routine and send of mail is done. Else you must use parse routine of
MIME::Lite::HTML and send of MIME::Lite.
- Proxy
- ... is url of proxy to use.
Eg: Proxy => 'http://192.168.100.166:8080'
- remove_jscript
- if set, remove all script code from html source
Eg: remove_jscript => 1
- Debug
- ... is trace to stdout during parsing.
Eg: Debug => 1
- IncludeType
- ... is method to use when finding images:
- location
- Default method is embed them in mail whith 'Content-Location' header.
- cid
- You use a 'Content-CID' header.
- extern
- Images are not embed, relative url are just replace with absolute, so
images are fetch when user read mail. (Server must be reachable !)
- ExternImages
- This is a listref of regular expressions. If an image matches any of the
regular expressions, it will be rendered as an <img> link, without
being attached to the mail, regardless of the IncludeType setting above.
For example:
ExternImages => [ '.*cat\.jpg.*', 'external/.*' ]
...would mean that "images/cat.jpg" and
"external/foo.jpg" would be sent as external <img>
links, but "images/dog.jpg" would be sent using whatever the
default IncludeType (above) is.
- $hash{'HashTemplate'}
- ... is a reference to a hash. If present, MIME::Lite::HTML will substitute
<? $name ?> with
$hash{'HashTemplate'}{'name'} when parse url to
send. $hash{'HashTemplate'} can be used too for
include data for subelement. Eg:
$hash{'HashTemplate'}{'http://www.al.com/images/sommaire.gif'}=\@data;
or
$hash{'HashTemplate'}{'http://www.al.com/script.js'}="alert("Hello world");;
When module find the image
http://www.alianwebserver.com/images/sommaire.gif in buffer, it don't
get image with LWP but use data found in
$hash{'HashTemplate'}. (See eg/example2.pl)
- LoginDetails
- ... is the couple user:password for use with restricted url.
Eg: LoginDetails => 'my_user:my_password'
- TextCharset
- ... is the character set to use for the text part.
Eg: TextCharset => 'iso-8859-7'
for Greek. If none specified, the default is used
(iso-8859-1).
- HTMLCharset
- ... is the character set to use for the html part.
Eg: HTMLCharset => 'iso-8859-7'
for Greek. If none specified, the default is used
(iso-8859-1). Take care, as that option does NOT change the character
set of the HTML page, it only changes the character set of the mime
part.
- TextEncoding
- ... is the Encoding to be used for the text part (if such a part exists).
If none specified, the default is used (7bit).
Eg: TextEncoding => 'base64'
- HTMLEncoding
- ... is the Encoding to be used for the html part. If none specified, the
default is used (quoted-printable).
Eg: HTMLEncoding => 'base64'.
Others keys are use with MIME::Lite constructor.
This MIME-Lite keys are: Bcc, Encrypted, Received, Sender, Cc,
From, References, Subject, Comments, Keywords, Reply-To To, Content-*,
Message-ID,Resent-*, X-*,Date, MIME-Version, Return-Path, Organization
- parse($html, [$url_txt], [$url_base])
- Subroutine used for created HTML mail with MIME-Lite
Parameters:
- $html
- Url of HTML file to send, can be a local file. If
$url is not an url (http or https or ftp or file
or nntp), $url is used as a buffer. Example :
http://www.alianwebserver.com
file://c|/tmp/index.html
<img src=toto.gif>
- $url_txt
- Url of text part to send for person who doesn't support HTML mail. As
$html, $url_txt can be a
simple buffer.
- $url_base
- $url_base is used if $html
is a buffer, for get element found in HTML buffer.
Return the MIME::Lite part to send
- size()
- Display size of mail in characters (so octets) that will be send. (So use
it *after* parse method). Use this method for control size of mail send, I
personnaly hate receive 500k by mail. I pay for a 33k modem :-(
- build_mime_object($html,[$txt],[@mail])
- (private)
Build the final MIME-Lite object to send with each part read
before
- $html
- Buffer of HTML part
- $txt
- Buffer of text part
- @mail
- List of images attached to HTML part. Each item is a MIME-Lite
object.
See "Construction" in "Description" for know
how MIME-Lite object is build.
- create_image_part($url)
- (private)
Fetch if needed $url, and create a
MIME part for it.
- include_css($gabarit,$root)
- (private)
Search in HTML buffer ($gabarit) to remplace call to extern
CSS file with his content. $root is original
absolute url where css file will be found.
- include_javascript($gabarit,$root)
- (private)
Search in HTML buffer ($gabarit) to remplace call to extern
javascript file with his content. $root is
original absolute url where javascript file will be found.
- input_image($gabarit,$root)
- (private)
Search in HTML buffer ($gabarit) to remplace input form image
with his cid
Return final buffer and list of MIME::Lite part
- link_form($gabarit,$root)
- (private)
Replace link to formulaire with absolute link
- fill_template($masque,$vars)
- $masque
- Path of template
- $vars
- hash ref with keys/val to substitue
Give template with remplaced variables Ex: if $$vars{age}=12, and
$masque have
J'ai <? $age ?> ans,
this function give:
J'ai 12 ans,
The set_err routine is used privately. You can ask for an array of all the
errors which occured inside the parse routine by calling:
@errors =
$mailHTML->errstr;
If no errors where found, it'll return undef.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# A cgi program that do "Mail this page to a friend";
# Call this script like this :
# script.cgi?email=myfriend@isp.com&url=http://www.go.com
use strict;
use CGI qw/:standard/;
use CGI::Carp qw/fatalsToBrowser/;
use MIME::Lite::HTML;
my $mailHTML = new MIME::Lite::HTML
From => 'MIME-Lite@alianwebserver.com',
To => param('email'),
Subject => 'Your url: '.param('url');
my $MIMEmail = $mailHTML->parse(param('url'));
$MIMEmail->send; # or for win user : $mail->send_by_smtp('smtp.fai.com');
print header,"Mail envoye (", param('url'), " to ", param('email'),")<br>\n";
Copyright (c) 2000 by Alain BARBET alian (at) cpan.org
All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can
redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY of any kind. See the
COPYING file in the distribution for details.
Alain BARBET alian@cpan.org , see file Changes for helpers.
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