NAME
    HyperWave::CSP - Communicate with a HyperWave server

SYNOPSIS
       use HyperWave::CSP;
         
       $server = HyperWave::CSP->New("my.hyperwave.server");
       $server->quit;

DESCRIPTION
    `HyperWave' is a class implementing a simple HyperWave client in Perl.

CONSTRUCTOR
    new ( [ HOST [, PORT [, USERNAME [, PASSWORD [, ENCRYPT [, LANGUAGE ] ] ] ] ] ] )
    This is the constructor for a new HyperWave object. `HOST' is the name
    of the remote host to which a HyperWave connection is required. If not
    given the environment variables `HWHOST' and then `HGHOST' are
    checked, and if a host is not found then `localhost' is used.

    `PORT' is the HyperWave port to connect to, it defaults to the
    environment variable `HWPORT', then `HGPORT' and then to the standard
    port 418 if nothing else is found.

    `USERNAME' and `PASSWORD' are the HyperWave username and password,
    they default to anonymous. `ENCRYPT' will eventually allow you to pass
    the password in in encrypted form rather than plaintext, but is not
    yet implemented.

    `LANGUGAE' also is not yet used, and defaults to the value of the
    environment variable `HWLANGUAGE' and then to English.

    The constructor returns the open socket, or `undef' if an error has
    been encountered.

METHODS
    Unless otherwise stated all methods return either a *true* or *false*
    value, with *true* meaning that the operation was a success. When a
    method states that it returns a value, failure will be returned as
    *undef* or an empty list.

    command_stat ( )
    Returns string containing various statistics for the server.

    command_ftstat ( )
    Returns string containing various statistics for the server.

    command_dcstat ( )
    Returns string containing various statistics for the server.

    command_who ( )
    Returns string containing current users for the server.

    get_objnum_by_name ( NAME )
    Returns object number for the document with NAME as an attribute, or
    false on error.

    get_url ( OBJNUM )
    Returns a guess at a URL that might work for the document OBJNUM to be
    retreived via the HyperWave HTTP interface. Note that it is ONLY a
    guess. For one thing, it depends on the HyperWave server running a web
    interface on the default HTTP port.

    get_attributes ( OBJNUM )
    Returns a string containing the attributes for OBJNUM. The string is
    in form `key1=value1\nkey2=value2\n...'.

    get_attributes_hash ( OBJNUM )
    Like get_attributes() except that the attributes are returned as a
    hash.

    get_text ( OBJNUM )
    Returns body text for the objnum passed. This usually means HTML sans
    anchors in practical terms.

    get_html ( OBJNUM )
    Returns HTML text, including anchors, for the objnum passed.

    exec_cgi ( OBJNUM )
    Returns output of the CGI, for the objnum passed. Depends on the CGI
    script not requiring input.

    add_attribute ( OBJNUM, NAME, VALUE )
    Adds an attribute to the given objnum. Note that HyperWave allows
    multiple attributes of the same name, so if you add an attribute that
    already exists you'll end up with two. Use change_attribute if you
    want to overwrite the old one.

    remove_attribute ( OBJNUM, NAME, VALUE )
    Removes an attribute to the given objnum. Note that you DO need to
    know the old value because HyperWave allows multiple attributes with
    the same value.

    change_attribute ( OBJNUM, NAME, OLD_VALUE, NEW_VALUE )
    Alters an attribute to the given objnum (NB: needs to know old value).

    get_children ( OBJNUM )
    Returns objnums for all the children in the objnum passed. If the
    object was a leaf node (ie: no children) you'll get a 0 back.

    get_parents ( OBJNUM )
    Returns objnums for all the parents in the objnum passed. If the
    object had no parents (it was the root collection) you'll get a 0
    back.

    get_anchors ( OBJNUM )
    Returns objnums for all the anchors in the document passed.

    add_collection ( PARENT_OBJNUM, NAME [, OTHER_PARAMS ] )
    Inserts a collection on the HyperWave server. Returns object ID of the
    new collection.

    `PARENT_OBJNUM' is the object number (probably returned from
    get_objnum_by_name() of the collection to insert this collection into.
    `NAME' is the name attribute, this will become the apparent URL to
    somebody using the WaveMaster interface.

    `OTHER_PARAMS' should be in the form
    `Attribute=AttributeValue\nAttr2=Value2' and so on. You might
    particularly want to set a Title for the collection.

    add_image ( OBJNUM, PARENT, NAME )
    Adds a new picture.

    add_text ( OBJNUM, PARENT )
    Adds a new text object (no anchors).

    add_html ( OBJNUM )
    Adds a new html object (we parse the anchors).

SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
  Bek Oberin <gossamer@tertius.net.au>

COPYRIGHT
  Copyright (c) 1998 Bek Oberin. All rights reserved.

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