Toit package: http

An HTTP server and client.

This package implements the HTTP/1.1 protocol. It supports 'GET' and 'POST' requests with convenience methods, and can be used to implement REST servers.

It has support for HTTPS connections. See the 'tls' examples for details.

Examples

Get request

import http
import net

main:
  network := net.open
  client := http.Client network

  response := client.get "www.example.com" "/"
  data := #[]
  while chunk := response.body.read:
    data += chunk
  print data.to_string

  client.close

JSON Post request

This example encodes the data to the server with JSON and then decodes the response as JSON as well.

import http
import net
import encoding.json

URL ::= "httpbin.org"
PATH ::= "/post"

main:
  network := net.open
  client := http.Client network
  response := client.post_json --host=URL --path=PATH {
    "foo": 42,
    "bar": 499,
  }
  data := json.decode_stream response.body
  client.close
  print data