Creating a HeaderFilter

A HeaderFilter is just a derived class that implements some methods called by the proxy. Of all the methods presented below, only filter() must be defined in the derived class.

filter()

The signature of the filter() method is the following:

    sub filter { my ( $self, $headers, $message) = @_; ... }
    

where $self is the filter object, $headers is a HTTP::Headers object, and $message is either a HTTP::Request or a HTTP::Response object.

The $headers HTTP::Headers object is the one that will be sent to the client (if the filter is on the response stack) or origin server (if the filter is on the request stack). If $headers is modified by the filter, the modified headers will be sent to the client or server.

The init() method (if it exists) is called by the new() constructeur to perform all initisalisation tasks. It's called once in the filter lifetime.

A HTTP::Proxy::HeaderFilter object is a blessed hash, and the base class reserves only hash keys that start with "_hphf".

new()

The constructor is defined for all subclasses. Initialisation tasks (if any) for subclasses should be done in the init() method (see below).

init()

This method is called by the new() constructeur to perform all initisalisation tasks. It's called once in the filter lifetime.

It receives all the parameters passed to new().

Standard HeaderFilters

Standard HTTP::Proxy::HeaderFilter classes are lowercase.

The following HeaderFilters are included in the HTTP::Proxy distribution:

simple

This class lets you create a simple header filter from a code reference.

standard

This is the filter that provides standard headers handling for HTTP::Proxy. It is loaded automatically by HTTP::Proxy.

Please read each filter's documentation for more details about their use.