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NAME
    Net::HTTP::NB - Non-blocking HTTP client

VERSION
    version 6.22

SYNOPSIS
     use Net::HTTP::NB;
     my $s = Net::HTTP::NB->new(Host => "www.perl.com") || die $@;
     $s->write_request(GET => "/");

     use IO::Select;
     my $sel = IO::Select->new($s);

     READ_HEADER: {
        die "Header timeout" unless $sel->can_read(10);
        my($code, $mess, %h) = $s->read_response_headers;
        redo READ_HEADER unless $code;
     }

     while (1) {
        die "Body timeout" unless $sel->can_read(10);
        my $buf;
        my $n = $s->read_entity_body($buf, 1024);
        last unless $n;
        print $buf;
     }

DESCRIPTION
    Same interface as "Net::HTTP" but it will never try multiple reads when the
    read_response_headers() or read_entity_body() methods are invoked. This make it possible to
    multiplex multiple Net::HTTP::NB using select without risk blocking.

    If read_response_headers() did not see enough data to complete the headers an empty list is
    returned.

    If read_entity_body() did not see new entity data in its read the value -1 is returned.

SEE ALSO
    Net::HTTP

AUTHOR
    Gisle Aas <gisle AT activestate.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
    This software is copyright (c) 2001 by Gisle Aas.

    This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl
    5 programming language system itself.