uf_uristr(3)

NAME

       uf_uristr - Expand URI using heuristics

SYNOPSIS

        use URI::Heuristic qw(uf_uristr);
        $u = uf_uristr("perl");             # http://www.perl.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 builtin heuristics.  Strings that already represent
       absolute URIs (i.e. start with a "scheme:" part) are never modified and
       are returned unchanged.  The main use of these functions are 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)
           The uf_uristr() function will try to make the string passed as
           argument 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)
           This functions work the same way as uf_uristr() but it will return
           a "URI" object.

ENVIRONMENT

       If the hostname portion of a URI does not contain any dots, then cer-
       tain qualified guesses will be made.  These guesses are governed be the
       following two environment variables.

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

       URL_GUESS_PATTERN
                 Contain 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.

perl v5.8.0                       2002-01-16                 URI::Heuristic(3)