package File::Fetch; use strict; use FileHandle; use File::Copy; use File::Spec; use File::Spec::Unix; use File::Basename qw[dirname]; use Cwd qw[cwd]; use Carp qw[carp]; use IPC::Cmd qw[can_run run]; use File::Path qw[mkpath]; use Params::Check qw[check]; use Module::Load::Conditional qw[can_load]; use Locale::Maketext::Simple Style => 'gettext'; use vars qw[ $VERBOSE $PREFER_BIN $FROM_EMAIL $USER_AGENT $BLACKLIST $METHOD_FAIL $VERSION $METHODS $FTP_PASSIVE $TIMEOUT $DEBUG $WARN ]; use constant QUOTE => do { $^O eq 'MSWin32' ? q["] : q['] }; $VERSION = '0.14'; $VERSION = eval $VERSION; # avoid warnings with development releases $PREFER_BIN = 0; # XXX TODO implement $FROM_EMAIL = 'File-Fetch@example.com'; $USER_AGENT = 'File::Fetch/$VERSION'; $BLACKLIST = [qw|ftp|]; $METHOD_FAIL = { }; $FTP_PASSIVE = 1; $TIMEOUT = 0; $DEBUG = 0; $WARN = 1; ### methods available to fetch the file depending on the scheme $METHODS = { http => [ qw|lwp wget curl lynx| ], ftp => [ qw|lwp netftp wget curl ncftp ftp| ], file => [ qw|lwp file| ], rsync => [ qw|rsync| ] }; ### silly warnings ### local $Params::Check::VERBOSE = 1; local $Params::Check::VERBOSE = 1; local $Module::Load::Conditional::VERBOSE = 0; local $Module::Load::Conditional::VERBOSE = 0; ### see what OS we are on, important for file:// uris ### use constant ON_WIN => ($^O eq 'MSWin32'); use constant ON_VMS => ($^O eq 'VMS'); use constant ON_UNIX => (!ON_WIN); use constant HAS_VOL => (ON_WIN); use constant HAS_SHARE => (ON_WIN); =pod =head1 NAME File::Fetch - A generic file fetching mechanism =head1 SYNOPSIS use File::Fetch; ### build a File::Fetch object ### my $ff = File::Fetch->new(uri => 'http://some.where.com/dir/a.txt'); ### fetch the uri to cwd() ### my $where = $ff->fetch() or die $ff->error; ### fetch the uri to /tmp ### my $where = $ff->fetch( to => '/tmp' ); ### parsed bits from the uri ### $ff->uri; $ff->scheme; $ff->host; $ff->path; $ff->file; =head1 DESCRIPTION File::Fetch is a generic file fetching mechanism. It allows you to fetch any file pointed to by a C, C, C, or C uri by a number of different means. See the C section further down for details. =head1 ACCESSORS A C object has the following accessors =over 4 =item $ff->uri The uri you passed to the constructor =item $ff->scheme The scheme from the uri (like 'file', 'http', etc) =item $ff->host The hostname in the uri. Will be empty if host was originally 'localhost' for a 'file://' url. =item $ff->vol On operating systems with the concept of a volume the second element of a file:// is considered to the be volume specification for the file. Thus on Win32 this routine returns the volume, on other operating systems this returns nothing. On Windows this value may be empty if the uri is to a network share, in which case the 'share' property will be defined. Additionally, volume specifications that use '|' as ':' will be converted on read to use ':'. On VMS, which has a volume concept, this field will be empty because VMS file specifications are converted to absolute UNIX format and the volume information is transparently included. =item $ff->share On systems with the concept of a network share (currently only Windows) returns the sharename from a file://// url. On other operating systems returns empty. =item $ff->path The path from the uri, will be at least a single '/'. =item $ff->file The name of the remote file. For the local file name, the result of $ff->output_file will be used. =cut ########################## ### Object & Accessors ### ########################## { ### template for new() and autogenerated accessors ### my $Tmpl = { scheme => { default => 'http' }, host => { default => 'localhost' }, path => { default => '/' }, file => { required => 1 }, uri => { required => 1 }, vol => { default => '' }, # windows for file:// uris share => { default => '' }, # windows for file:// uris _error_msg => { no_override => 1 }, _error_msg_long => { no_override => 1 }, }; for my $method ( keys %$Tmpl ) { no strict 'refs'; *$method = sub { my $self = shift; $self->{$method} = $_[0] if @_; return $self->{$method}; } } sub _create { my $class = shift; my %hash = @_; my $args = check( $Tmpl, \%hash ) or return; bless $args, $class; if( lc($args->scheme) ne 'file' and not $args->host ) { return File::Fetch->_error(loc( "Hostname required when fetching from '%1'",$args->scheme)); } for (qw[path file]) { unless( $args->$_() ) { # 5.5.x needs the () return File::Fetch->_error(loc("No '%1' specified",$_)); } } return $args; } } =item $ff->output_file The name of the output file. This is the same as $ff->file, but any query parameters are stripped off. For example: http://example.com/index.html?x=y would make the output file be C rather than C. =back =cut sub output_file { my $self = shift; my $file = $self->file; $file =~ s/\?.*$//g; return $file; } ### XXX do this or just point to URI::Escape? # =head2 $esc_uri = $ff->escaped_uri # # =cut # # ### most of this is stolen straight from URI::escape # { ### Build a char->hex map # my %escapes = map { chr($_) => sprintf("%%%02X", $_) } 0..255; # # sub escaped_uri { # my $self = shift; # my $uri = $self->uri; # # ### Default unsafe characters. RFC 2732 ^(uric - reserved) # $uri =~ s/([^A-Za-z0-9\-_.!~*'()])/ # $escapes{$1} || $self->_fail_hi($1)/ge; # # return $uri; # } # # sub _fail_hi { # my $self = shift; # my $char = shift; # # $self->_error(loc( # "Can't escape '%1', try using the '%2' module instead", # sprintf("\\x{%04X}", ord($char)), 'URI::Escape' # )); # } # # sub output_file { # # } # # # } =head1 METHODS =head2 $ff = File::Fetch->new( uri => 'http://some.where.com/dir/file.txt' ); Parses the uri and creates a corresponding File::Fetch::Item object, that is ready to be Ced and returns it. Returns false on failure. =cut sub new { my $class = shift; my %hash = @_; my ($uri); my $tmpl = { uri => { required => 1, store => \$uri }, }; check( $tmpl, \%hash ) or return; ### parse the uri to usable parts ### my $href = __PACKAGE__->_parse_uri( $uri ) or return; ### make it into a FFI object ### my $ff = File::Fetch->_create( %$href ) or return; ### return the object ### return $ff; } ### parses an uri to a hash structure: ### ### $class->_parse_uri( 'ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/mirror/index.txt' ) ### ### becomes: ### ### $href = { ### scheme => 'ftp', ### host => 'ftp.cpan.org', ### path => '/pub/mirror', ### file => 'index.html' ### }; ### ### In the case of file:// urls there maybe be additional fields ### ### For systems with volume specifications such as Win32 there will be ### a volume specifier provided in the 'vol' field. ### ### 'vol' => 'volumename' ### ### For windows file shares there may be a 'share' key specified ### ### 'share' => 'sharename' ### ### Note that the rules of what a file:// url means vary by the operating system ### of the host being addressed. Thus file:///d|/foo/bar.txt means the obvious ### 'D:\foo\bar.txt' on windows, but on unix it means '/d|/foo/bar.txt' and ### not '/foo/bar.txt' ### ### Similarly if the host interpreting the url is VMS then ### file:///disk$user/my/notes/note12345.txt' means ### 'DISK$USER:[MY.NOTES]NOTE123456.TXT' but will be returned the same as ### if it is unix where it means /disk$user/my/notes/note12345.txt'. ### Except for some cases in the File::Spec methods, Perl on VMS will generally ### handle UNIX format file specifications. ### ### This means it is impossible to serve certain file:// urls on certain systems. ### ### Thus are the problems with a protocol-less specification. :-( ### sub _parse_uri { my $self = shift; my $uri = shift or return; my $href = { uri => $uri }; ### find the scheme ### $uri =~ s|^(\w+)://||; $href->{scheme} = $1; ### See rfc 1738 section 3.10 ### http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1738.html ### And wikipedia for more on windows file:// urls ### http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:// if( $href->{scheme} eq 'file' ) { my @parts = split '/',$uri; ### file://hostname/... ### file://hostname/... ### normalize file://localhost with file:/// $href->{host} = $parts[0] || ''; ### index in @parts where the path components begin; my $index = 1; ### file:////hostname/sharename/blah.txt if ( HAS_SHARE and not length $parts[0] and not length $parts[1] ) { $href->{host} = $parts[2] || ''; # avoid warnings $href->{share} = $parts[3] || ''; # avoid warnings $index = 4 # index after the share ### file:///D|/blah.txt ### file:///D:/blah.txt } elsif (HAS_VOL) { ### this code comes from dmq's patch, but: ### XXX if volume is empty, wouldn't that be an error? --kane ### if so, our file://localhost test needs to be fixed as wel $href->{vol} = $parts[1] || ''; ### correct D| style colume descriptors $href->{vol} =~ s/\A([A-Z])\|\z/$1:/i if ON_WIN; $index = 2; # index after the volume } ### rebuild the path from the leftover parts; $href->{path} = join '/', '', splice( @parts, $index, $#parts ); } else { ### using anything but qw() in hash slices may produce warnings ### in older perls :-( @{$href}{ qw(host path) } = $uri =~ m|([^/]*)(/.*)$|s; } ### split the path into file + dir ### { my @parts = File::Spec::Unix->splitpath( delete $href->{path} ); $href->{path} = $parts[1]; $href->{file} = $parts[2]; } ### host will be empty if the target was 'localhost' and the ### scheme was 'file' $href->{host} = '' if ($href->{host} eq 'localhost') and ($href->{scheme} eq 'file'); return $href; } =head2 $ff->fetch( [to => /my/output/dir/] ) Fetches the file you requested. By default it writes to C, but you can override that by specifying the C argument. Returns the full path to the downloaded file on success, and false on failure. =cut sub fetch { my $self = shift or return; my %hash = @_; my $to; my $tmpl = { to => { default => cwd(), store => \$to }, }; check( $tmpl, \%hash ) or return; ### On VMS force to VMS format so File::Spec will work. $to = VMS::Filespec::vmspath($to) if ON_VMS; ### create the path if it doesn't exist yet ### unless( -d $to ) { eval { mkpath( $to ) }; return $self->_error(loc("Could not create path '%1'",$to)) if $@; } ### set passive ftp if required ### local $ENV{FTP_PASSIVE} = $FTP_PASSIVE; ### we dont use catfile on win32 because if we are using a cygwin tool ### under cmd.exe they wont understand windows style separators. my $out_to = ON_WIN ? $to.'/'.$self->output_file : File::Spec->catfile( $to, $self->output_file ); for my $method ( @{ $METHODS->{$self->scheme} } ) { my $sub = '_'.$method.'_fetch'; unless( __PACKAGE__->can($sub) ) { $self->_error(loc("Cannot call method for '%1' -- WEIRD!", $method)); next; } ### method is blacklisted ### next if grep { lc $_ eq $method } @$BLACKLIST; ### method is known to fail ### next if $METHOD_FAIL->{$method}; ### there's serious issues with IPC::Run and quoting of command ### line arguments. using quotes in the wrong place breaks things, ### and in the case of say, ### C:\cygwin\bin\wget.EXE --quiet --passive-ftp --output-document ### "index.html" "http://www.cpan.org/index.html?q=1&y=2" ### it doesn't matter how you quote, it always fails. local $IPC::Cmd::USE_IPC_RUN = 0; if( my $file = $self->$sub( to => $out_to )){ unless( -e $file && -s _ ) { $self->_error(loc("'%1' said it fetched '%2', ". "but it was not created",$method,$file)); ### mark the failure ### $METHOD_FAIL->{$method} = 1; next; } else { my $abs = File::Spec->rel2abs( $file ); return $abs; } } } ### if we got here, we looped over all methods, but we weren't able ### to fetch it. return; } ######################## ### _*_fetch methods ### ######################## ### LWP fetching ### sub _lwp_fetch { my $self = shift; my %hash = @_; my ($to); my $tmpl = { to => { required => 1, store => \$to } }; check( $tmpl, \%hash ) or return; ### modules required to download with lwp ### my $use_list = { LWP => '0.0', 'LWP::UserAgent' => '0.0', 'HTTP::Request' => '0.0', 'HTTP::Status' => '0.0', URI => '0.0', }; if( can_load(modules => $use_list) ) { ### setup the uri object my $uri = URI->new( File::Spec::Unix->catfile( $self->path, $self->file ) ); ### special rules apply for file:// uris ### $uri->scheme( $self->scheme ); $uri->host( $self->scheme eq 'file' ? '' : $self->host ); $uri->userinfo("anonymous:$FROM_EMAIL") if $self->scheme ne 'file'; ### set up the useragent object my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(); $ua->timeout( $TIMEOUT ) if $TIMEOUT; $ua->agent( $USER_AGENT ); $ua->from( $FROM_EMAIL ); $ua->env_proxy; my $res = $ua->mirror($uri, $to) or return; ### uptodate or fetched ok ### if ( $res->code == 304 or $res->code == 200 ) { return $to; } else { return $self->_error(loc("Fetch failed! HTTP response: %1 %2 [%3]", $res->code, HTTP::Status::status_message($res->code), $res->status_line)); } } else { $METHOD_FAIL->{'lwp'} = 1; return; } } ### Net::FTP fetching sub _netftp_fetch { my $self = shift; my %hash = @_; my ($to); my $tmpl = { to => { required => 1, store => \$to } }; check( $tmpl, \%hash ) or return; ### required modules ### my $use_list = { 'Net::FTP' => 0 }; if( can_load( modules => $use_list ) ) { ### make connection ### my $ftp; my @options = ($self->host); push(@options, Timeout => $TIMEOUT) if $TIMEOUT; unless( $ftp = Net::FTP->new( @options ) ) { return $self->_error(loc("Ftp creation failed: %1",$@)); } ### login ### unless( $ftp->login( anonymous => $FROM_EMAIL ) ) { return $self->_error(loc("Could not login to '%1'",$self->host)); } ### set binary mode, just in case ### $ftp->binary; ### create the remote path ### remember remote paths are unix paths! [#11483] my $remote = File::Spec::Unix->catfile( $self->path, $self->file ); ### fetch the file ### my $target; unless( $target = $ftp->get( $remote, $to ) ) { return $self->_error(loc("Could not fetch '%1' from '%2'", $remote, $self->host)); } ### log out ### $ftp->quit; return $target; } else { $METHOD_FAIL->{'netftp'} = 1; return; } } ### /bin/wget fetch ### sub _wget_fetch { my $self = shift; my %hash = @_; my ($to); my $tmpl = { to => { required => 1, store => \$to } }; check( $tmpl, \%hash ) or return; ### see if we have a wget binary ### if( my $wget = can_run('wget') ) { ### no verboseness, thanks ### my $cmd = [ $wget, '--quiet' ]; ### if a timeout is set, add it ### push(@$cmd, '--timeout=' . $TIMEOUT) if $TIMEOUT; ### run passive if specified ### push @$cmd, '--passive-ftp' if $FTP_PASSIVE; ### set the output document, add the uri ### push @$cmd, '--output-document', ### DO NOT quote things for IPC::Run, it breaks stuff. $IPC::Cmd::USE_IPC_RUN ? ($to, $self->uri) : (QUOTE. $to .QUOTE, QUOTE. $self->uri .QUOTE); ### shell out ### my $captured; unless(run( command => $cmd, buffer => \$captured, verbose => $DEBUG )) { ### wget creates the output document always, even if the fetch ### fails.. so unlink it in that case 1 while unlink $to; return $self->_error(loc( "Command failed: %1", $captured || '' )); } return $to; } else { $METHOD_FAIL->{'wget'} = 1; return; } } ### /bin/ftp fetch ### sub _ftp_fetch { my $self = shift; my %hash = @_; my ($to); my $tmpl = { to => { required => 1, store => \$to } }; check( $tmpl, \%hash ) or return; ### see if we have a ftp binary ### if( my $ftp = can_run('ftp') ) { my $fh = FileHandle->new; local $SIG{CHLD} = 'IGNORE'; unless ($fh->open("|$ftp -n")) { return $self->_error(loc("%1 creation failed: %2", $ftp, $!)); } my @dialog = ( "lcd " . dirname($to), "open " . $self->host, "user anonymous $FROM_EMAIL", "cd /", "cd " . $self->path, "binary", "get " . $self->file . " " . $self->output_file, "quit", ); foreach (@dialog) { $fh->print($_, "\n") } $fh->close or return; return $to; } } ### lynx is stupid - it decompresses any .gz file it finds to be text ### use /bin/lynx to fetch files sub _lynx_fetch { my $self = shift; my %hash = @_; my ($to); my $tmpl = { to => { required => 1, store => \$to } }; check( $tmpl, \%hash ) or return; ### see if we have a lynx binary ### if( my $lynx = can_run('lynx') ) { unless( IPC::Cmd->can_capture_buffer ) { $METHOD_FAIL->{'lynx'} = 1; return $self->_error(loc( "Can not capture buffers. Can not use '%1' to fetch files", 'lynx' )); } ### write to the output file ourselves, since lynx ass_u_mes to much my $local = FileHandle->new(">$to") or return $self->_error(loc( "Could not open '%1' for writing: %2",$to,$!)); ### dump to stdout ### my $cmd = [ $lynx, '-source', "-auth=anonymous:$FROM_EMAIL", ]; push @$cmd, "-connect_timeout=$TIMEOUT" if $TIMEOUT; ### DO NOT quote things for IPC::Run, it breaks stuff. push @$cmd, $IPC::Cmd::USE_IPC_RUN ? $self->uri : QUOTE. $self->uri .QUOTE; ### shell out ### my $captured; unless(run( command => $cmd, buffer => \$captured, verbose => $DEBUG ) ) { return $self->_error(loc("Command failed: %1", $captured || '')); } ### print to local file ### ### XXX on a 404 with a special error page, $captured will actually ### hold the contents of that page, and make it *appear* like the ### request was a success, when really it wasn't :( ### there doesn't seem to be an option for lynx to change the exit ### code based on a 4XX status or so. ### the closest we can come is using --error_file and parsing that, ### which is very unreliable ;( $local->print( $captured ); $local->close or return; return $to; } else { $METHOD_FAIL->{'lynx'} = 1; return; } } ### use /bin/ncftp to fetch files sub _ncftp_fetch { my $self = shift; my %hash = @_; my ($to); my $tmpl = { to => { required => 1, store => \$to } }; check( $tmpl, \%hash ) or return; ### we can only set passive mode in interactive sesssions, so bail out ### if $FTP_PASSIVE is set return if $FTP_PASSIVE; ### see if we have a ncftp binary ### if( my $ncftp = can_run('ncftp') ) { my $cmd = [ $ncftp, '-V', # do not be verbose '-p', $FROM_EMAIL, # email as password $self->host, # hostname dirname($to), # local dir for the file # remote path to the file ### DO NOT quote things for IPC::Run, it breaks stuff. $IPC::Cmd::USE_IPC_RUN ? File::Spec::Unix->catdir( $self->path, $self->file ) : QUOTE. File::Spec::Unix->catdir( $self->path, $self->file ) .QUOTE ]; ### shell out ### my $captured; unless(run( command => $cmd, buffer => \$captured, verbose => $DEBUG ) ) { return $self->_error(loc("Command failed: %1", $captured || '')); } return $to; } else { $METHOD_FAIL->{'ncftp'} = 1; return; } } ### use /bin/curl to fetch files sub _curl_fetch { my $self = shift; my %hash = @_; my ($to); my $tmpl = { to => { required => 1, store => \$to } }; check( $tmpl, \%hash ) or return; if (my $curl = can_run('curl')) { ### these long opts are self explanatory - I like that -jmb my $cmd = [ $curl ]; push(@$cmd, '--connect-timeout', $TIMEOUT) if $TIMEOUT; push(@$cmd, '--silent') unless $DEBUG; ### curl does the right thing with passive, regardless ### if ($self->scheme eq 'ftp') { push(@$cmd, '--user', "anonymous:$FROM_EMAIL"); } ### curl doesn't follow 302 (temporarily moved) etc automatically ### so we add --location to enable that. push @$cmd, '--fail', '--location', '--output', ### DO NOT quote things for IPC::Run, it breaks stuff. $IPC::Cmd::USE_IPC_RUN ? ($to, $self->uri) : (QUOTE. $to .QUOTE, QUOTE. $self->uri .QUOTE); my $captured; unless(run( command => $cmd, buffer => \$captured, verbose => $DEBUG ) ) { return $self->_error(loc("Command failed: %1", $captured || '')); } return $to; } else { $METHOD_FAIL->{'curl'} = 1; return; } } ### use File::Copy for fetching file:// urls ### ### ### See section 3.10 of RFC 1738 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1738.html) ### Also see wikipedia on file:// (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File://) ### sub _file_fetch { my $self = shift; my %hash = @_; my ($to); my $tmpl = { to => { required => 1, store => \$to } }; check( $tmpl, \%hash ) or return; ### prefix a / on unix systems with a file uri, since it would ### look somewhat like this: ### file:///home/kane/file ### wheras windows file uris for 'c:\some\dir\file' might look like: ### file:///C:/some/dir/file ### file:///C|/some/dir/file ### or for a network share '\\host\share\some\dir\file': ### file:////host/share/some/dir/file ### ### VMS file uri's for 'DISK$USER:[MY.NOTES]NOTE123456.TXT' might look like: ### file://vms.host.edu/disk$user/my/notes/note12345.txt ### my $path = $self->path; my $vol = $self->vol; my $share = $self->share; my $remote; if (!$share and $self->host) { return $self->_error(loc( "Currently %1 cannot handle hosts in %2 urls", 'File::Fetch', 'file://' )); } if( $vol ) { $path = File::Spec->catdir( split /\//, $path ); $remote = File::Spec->catpath( $vol, $path, $self->file); } elsif( $share ) { ### win32 specific, and a share name, so we wont bother with File::Spec $path =~ s|/+|\\|g; $remote = "\\\\".$self->host."\\$share\\$path"; } else { ### File::Spec on VMS can not currently handle UNIX syntax. my $file_class = ON_VMS ? 'File::Spec::Unix' : 'File::Spec'; $remote = $file_class->catfile( $path, $self->file ); } ### File::Copy is littered with 'die' statements :( ### my $rv = eval { File::Copy::copy( $remote, $to ) }; ### something went wrong ### if( !$rv or $@ ) { return $self->_error(loc("Could not copy '%1' to '%2': %3 %4", $remote, $to, $!, $@)); } return $to; } ### use /usr/bin/rsync to fetch files sub _rsync_fetch { my $self = shift; my %hash = @_; my ($to); my $tmpl = { to => { required => 1, store => \$to } }; check( $tmpl, \%hash ) or return; if (my $rsync = can_run('rsync')) { my $cmd = [ $rsync ]; ### XXX: rsync has no I/O timeouts at all, by default push(@$cmd, '--timeout=' . $TIMEOUT) if $TIMEOUT; push(@$cmd, '--quiet') unless $DEBUG; ### DO NOT quote things for IPC::Run, it breaks stuff. push @$cmd, $IPC::Cmd::USE_IPC_RUN ? ($self->uri, $to) : (QUOTE. $self->uri .QUOTE, QUOTE. $to .QUOTE); my $captured; unless(run( command => $cmd, buffer => \$captured, verbose => $DEBUG ) ) { return $self->_error(loc("Command %1 failed: %2", "@$cmd" || '', $captured || '')); } return $to; } else { $METHOD_FAIL->{'rsync'} = 1; return; } } ################################# # # Error code # ################################# =pod =head2 $ff->error([BOOL]) Returns the last encountered error as string. Pass it a true value to get the C output instead. =cut ### error handling the way Archive::Extract does it sub _error { my $self = shift; my $error = shift; $self->_error_msg( $error ); $self->_error_msg_long( Carp::longmess($error) ); if( $WARN ) { carp $DEBUG ? $self->_error_msg_long : $self->_error_msg; } return; } sub error { my $self = shift; return shift() ? $self->_error_msg_long : $self->_error_msg; } 1; =pod =head1 HOW IT WORKS File::Fetch is able to fetch a variety of uris, by using several external programs and modules. Below is a mapping of what utilities will be used in what order for what schemes, if available: file => LWP, file http => LWP, wget, curl, lynx ftp => LWP, Net::FTP, wget, curl, ncftp, ftp rsync => rsync If you'd like to disable the use of one or more of these utilities and/or modules, see the C<$BLACKLIST> variable further down. If a utility or module isn't available, it will be marked in a cache (see the C<$METHOD_FAIL> variable further down), so it will not be tried again. The C method will only fail when all options are exhausted, and it was not able to retrieve the file. A special note about fetching files from an ftp uri: By default, all ftp connections are done in passive mode. To change that, see the C<$FTP_PASSIVE> variable further down. Furthermore, ftp uris only support anonymous connections, so no named user/password pair can be passed along. C is blacklisted by default; see the C<$BLACKLIST> variable further down. =head1 GLOBAL VARIABLES The behaviour of File::Fetch can be altered by changing the following global variables: =head2 $File::Fetch::FROM_EMAIL This is the email address that will be sent as your anonymous ftp password. Default is C. =head2 $File::Fetch::USER_AGENT This is the useragent as C will report it. Default is C. =head2 $File::Fetch::FTP_PASSIVE This variable controls whether the environment variable C and any passive switches to commandline tools will be set to true. Default value is 1. Note: When $FTP_PASSIVE is true, C will not be used to fetch files, since passive mode can only be set interactively for this binary =head2 $File::Fetch::TIMEOUT When set, controls the network timeout (counted in seconds). Default value is 0. =head2 $File::Fetch::WARN This variable controls whether errors encountered internally by C should be C'd or not. Set to false to silence warnings. Inspect the output of the C method manually to see what went wrong. Defaults to C. =head2 $File::Fetch::DEBUG This enables debugging output when calling commandline utilities to fetch files. This also enables C errors, instead of the regular C errors. Good for tracking down why things don't work with your particular setup. Default is 0. =head2 $File::Fetch::BLACKLIST This is an array ref holding blacklisted modules/utilities for fetching files with. To disallow the use of, for example, C and C, you could set $File::Fetch::BLACKLIST to: $File::Fetch::BLACKLIST = [qw|lwp netftp|] The default blacklist is [qw|ftp|], as C is rather unreliable. See the note on C below. =head2 $File::Fetch::METHOD_FAIL This is a hashref registering what modules/utilities were known to fail for fetching files (mostly because they weren't installed). You can reset this cache by assigning an empty hashref to it, or individually remove keys. See the note on C below. =head1 MAPPING Here's a quick mapping for the utilities/modules, and their names for the $BLACKLIST, $METHOD_FAIL and other internal functions. LWP => lwp Net::FTP => netftp wget => wget lynx => lynx ncftp => ncftp ftp => ftp curl => curl rsync => rsync =head1 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS =head2 So how do I use a proxy with File::Fetch? C currently only supports proxies with LWP::UserAgent. You will need to set your environment variables accordingly. For example, to use an ftp proxy: $ENV{ftp_proxy} = 'foo.com'; Refer to the LWP::UserAgent manpage for more details. =head2 I used 'lynx' to fetch a file, but its contents is all wrong! C can only fetch remote files by dumping its contents to C, which we in turn capture. If that content is a 'custom' error file (like, say, a C<404 handler>), you will get that contents instead. Sadly, C doesn't support any options to return a different exit code on non-C<200 OK> status, giving us no way to tell the difference between a 'successfull' fetch and a custom error page. Therefor, we recommend to only use C as a last resort. This is why it is at the back of our list of methods to try as well. =head2 Files I'm trying to fetch have reserved characters or non-ASCII characters in them. What do I do? C is relatively smart about things. When trying to write a file to disk, it removes the C (see the C method for details) from the file name before creating it. In most cases this suffices. If you have any other characters you need to escape, please install the C module from CPAN, and pre-encode your URI before passing it to C. You can read about the details of URIs and URI encoding here: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2396.html =head1 TODO =over 4 =item Implement $PREFER_BIN To indicate to rather use commandline tools than modules =back =head1 BUG REPORTS Please report bugs or other issues to Ebug-file-fetch@rt.cpan.org. =head1 AUTHOR This module by Jos Boumans Ekane@cpan.orgE. =head1 COPYRIGHT This library is free software; you may redistribute and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. =cut # Local variables: # c-indentation-style: bsd # c-basic-offset: 4 # indent-tabs-mode: nil # End: # vim: expandtab shiftwidth=4: