phpman > perldoc > URI::Heuristic

NAME
    URI::Heuristic - Expand URI using heuristics

SYNOPSIS
     use URI::Heuristic qw(uf_uristr);
     $u = uf_uristr("example");          # http://www.example.com
     $u = uf_uristr("www.sol.no/sol");   # http://www.sol.no/sol
     $u = uf_uristr("aas");              # http://www.aas.no
     $u = uf_uristr("ftp.funet.fi");     # ftp://ftp.funet.fi
     $u = uf_uristr("/etc/passwd");      # file:/etc/passwd

DESCRIPTION
    This module provides functions that expand strings into real absolute URIs using some built-in
    heuristics. Strings that already represent absolute URIs (i.e. that start with a "scheme:" part)
    are never modified and are returned unchanged. The main use of these functions is to allow
    abbreviated URIs similar to what many web browsers allow for URIs typed in by the user.

    The following functions are provided:

    uf_uristr($str)
        Tries to make the argument string into a proper absolute URI string. The "uf_" prefix stands
        for "User Friendly". Under MacOS, it assumes that any string with a common URL scheme (http,
        ftp, etc.) is a URL rather than a local path. So don't name your volumes after common URL
        schemes and expect uf_uristr() to construct valid file: URL's on those volumes for you,
        because it won't.

    uf_uri($str)
        Works the same way as uf_uristr() but returns a "URI" object.

ENVIRONMENT
    If the hostname portion of a URI does not contain any dots, then certain qualified guesses are
    made. These guesses are governed by the following environment variables:

    COUNTRY   The two-letter country code (ISO 3166) for your location. If the domain name of your
              host ends with two letters, then it is taken to be the default country. See also
              Locale::Country.

    HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE, LC_ALL, LANG
              If COUNTRY is not set, these standard environment variables are examined and country
              (not language) information possibly found in them is used as the default country.

    URL_GUESS_PATTERN
              Contains a space-separated list of URL patterns to try. The string "ACME" is for some
              reason used as a placeholder for the host name in the URL provided. Example:

               URL_GUESS_PATTERN="www.ACME.no www.ACME.se www.ACME.com"
               export URL_GUESS_PATTERN

              Specifying URL_GUESS_PATTERN disables any guessing rules based on country. An empty
              URL_GUESS_PATTERN disables any guessing that involves host name lookups.

COPYRIGHT
    Copyright 1997-1998, Gisle Aas

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