Class Rack::Request
In: lib/rack/request.rb
Parent: Object

Rack::Request provides a convenient interface to a Rack environment. It is stateless, the environment env passed to the constructor will be directly modified.

  req = Rack::Request.new(env)
  req.post?
  req.params["data"]

Methods

Constants

FORM_DATA_MEDIA_TYPES = [ nil, 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded', 'multipart/form-data'   The set of form-data media-types. Requests that do not indicate one of the media types presents in this list will not be eligible for form-data / param parsing.

Attributes

env  [R]  The environment of the request.

Public Class methods

Public Instance methods

Returns the data recieved in the query string.

Returns the data recieved in the request body.

This method support both application/x-www-form-urlencoded and multipart/form-data.

shortcut for request.params[key]

shortcut for request.params[key] = value

The character set of the request body if a "charset" media type parameter was given, or nil if no "charset" was specified. Note that, per RFC2616, text/* media types that specify no explicit charset are to be considered ISO-8859-1.

Determine whether the request body contains form-data by checking the request media_type against registered form-data media-types: "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" and "multipart/form-data". The list of form-data media types can be modified through the FORM_DATA_MEDIA_TYPES array.

The media type (type/subtype) portion of the CONTENT_TYPE header without any media type parameters. e.g., when CONTENT_TYPE is "text/plain;charset=utf-8", the media-type is "text/plain".

For more information on the use of media types in HTTP, see: www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec3.html#sec3.7

The media type parameters provided in CONTENT_TYPE as a Hash, or an empty Hash if no CONTENT_TYPE or media-type parameters were provided. e.g., when the CONTENT_TYPE is "text/plain;charset=utf-8", this method responds with the following Hash:

  { 'charset' => 'utf-8' }

The union of GET and POST data.

the referer of the client or ’/’

referrer()

Alias for referer

Tries to return a remake of the original request URL as a string.

like Hash#values_at

[Validate]