Http:get()

Http:get(uri, [parameters])method

Send an asynchronous GET request to the connected HTTP server for a specific resource.

Parameters

uri

A string representing the resource to get on the server.

[parameters]

An optional table that contains parameters to be sent with the request, in the form of key1=value1&key2=value2...

Return value

This method return a Task instance. Once the Task has finished, it will return two values :

The first value is the Http instance used for the GET request.
The second value is nil in case of error or a table that contains the server response, with the following fields

"content" : a string containing the body part of the HTTP response
"elapsed" : a number representing the elapsed time to get the response
"status" : a number containing the HTTP response status
"reason" : a string containing HTTP response status text
"ok" : a boolean value indicating if the GET request succeeded
"headers" : a table containing a pair of strings(header field names of the HTTP response as key and content as values)
"cookies" : a table containing a pair of strings(cookies names of the HTTP response as key and content as values)

Example


--! luart-extensions
import net

-- creates a Http instance and call its get() method
-- the get() method will return a Task instance
-- then we set the Task instance "after" property
-- with a function that will be called once the Task is terminated, using the two values returned by the Task

net.Http("https://wttr.in"):get("/Paris?format=3").after = function (client, response)
  console.write(response.content)
end

waitall()