Module OpenURI::Meta
In: lib/open-uri.rb

Mixin for holding meta-information.

Methods

charset   content_encoding   content_type   last_modified  

Constants

RE_LWS = /[\r\n\t ]+/n
RE_TOKEN = %r{[^\x00- ()<>@,;:\\"/\[\]?={}\x7f]+}n
RE_QUOTED_STRING = %r{"(?:[\r\n\t !#-\[\]-~\x80-\xff]|\\[\x00-\x7f])*"}n
RE_PARAMETERS = %r{(?:;#{RE_LWS}?#{RE_TOKEN}#{RE_LWS}?=#{RE_LWS}?(?:#{RE_TOKEN}|#{RE_QUOTED_STRING})#{RE_LWS}?)*}n

Attributes

base_uri  [RW]  returns a URI which is base of relative URIs in the data. It may differ from the URI supplied by a user because redirection.
meta  [R]  returns a Hash which represents header fields. The Hash keys are downcased for canonicalization.
status  [RW]  returns an Array which consists status code and message.

Public Instance methods

charset() {|| ...}

returns a charset parameter in Content-Type field. It is downcased for canonicalization.

If charset parameter is not given but a block is given, the block is called and its result is returned. It can be used to guess charset.

If charset parameter and block is not given, nil is returned except text type in HTTP. In that case, "iso-8859-1" is returned as defined by RFC2616 3.7.1.

content_encoding()

returns a list of encodings in Content-Encoding field as an Array of String. The encodings are downcased for canonicalization.

content_type()

returns "type/subtype" which is MIME Content-Type. It is downcased for canonicalization. Content-Type parameters are stripped.

last_modified()

returns a Time which represents Last-Modified field.

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