Perl in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

General Internet Methods

The methods described in this section are used on Internet connection objects created with new:

$inet = Win32::Internet->new(  );

You can supply new with an optional list of arguments (or a reference to a hash containing them) that looks like this:

Win32::Internet->new [useragent, opentype, proxy, proxybypass, flags] 
Win32::Internet->new [$hashref]

The parameters and their values are:

useragent

The user agent string passed to HTTP requests. Default is Perl-Win32Internet/version.

opentype

How to access the Internet (e.g., directly or using a proxy). Default is INTERNET_OPEN_TYPE_DIRECT.

proxy

Name of the proxy server (or servers) to use. Default is none.

proxybypass

Optional list of hostnames or IP addresses that are known locally. Default is none.

flags

Additional flags affecting the behavior of the function. Default is none.

If you pass a hash reference to the function, the following values are taken from the hash:

%hash=(
  "useragent"   => "useragent",
  "opentype"    => "opentype",
  "proxy"       => "proxy",
  "proxybypass" => "proxybypass",
  "flags"       => flags,
);

The following methods can be used on Internet connection objects.