The generic apache request library (apr) contains modules for manipulating client request data with the apache api from perl and c. functionality includes:

- parsing of application/x-www-form-urlencoded data
- parsing of multipart/form-data
- parsing of http cookies
this package contains the perl bindings, which are simply a thin xs layer on top of libapreq, making them a lighter and faster alternative to cgi.pm and cgi::cookie.