sub path_info { shift->path(@_) }
sub snippets { shift->captures(@_) }
+=for stopwords param params
+
=head1 NAME
Catalyst::Request - provides information about the current client request
=head2 $req->base
Contains the URI base. This will always have a trailing slash. Note that the
-URI scheme (eg., http vs. https) must be determined through heuristics;
+URI scheme (e.g., http vs. https) must be determined through heuristics;
depending on your server configuration, it may be incorrect. See $req->secure
for more info.
=head2 $req->hostname
-Returns the hostname of the client.
+Returns the hostname of the client. Use C<< $req->uri->host >> to get the hostname of the server.
=head2 $req->input
Returns the path, i.e. the part of the URI after $req->base, for the current request.
+ http://localhost/path/foo
+
+ $c->request->path will contain 'path/foo'
+
=head2 $req->path_info
Alias for path, added for compatibility with L<CGI>.
=head2 $req->secure
Returns true or false, indicating whether the connection is secure
-(https). Note that the URI scheme (eg., http vs. https) must be determined
+(https). Note that the URI scheme (e.g., http vs. https) must be determined
through heuristics, and therefore the reliability of $req->secure will depend
on your server configuration. If you are serving secure pages on the standard
SSL port (443) and/or setting the HTTPS environment variable, $req->secure