Class documentation: interface.http

HTTP request handling methods and classes.

Inherits

System.object

Classes contained

• interface.http.cgi: Common Gateway Interface (CGI) request handler.
• interface.http.request: HTTP request object.
• interface.http.request_parser: HTTP request parser base class.
• interface.http.response: HTTP response object.

Constructors

Destructor

Operators

Properties

Methods

• dictionary_to_query_string(params): Dictionary->query string
  • params: Query parameters.
• get(request_method, host, port, path, options): Retrieves a resource from an HTTP server. options can be null or a System.collections.binary_tree that has one or more of the following fields: auth_type: Authentication type (only Basic is supported at the moment) auth_username: Username for HTTP authentication auth_password: Password for HTTP authentication parameters: a binary_tree with keys/values to send headers: additional HTTP headers to send Returns an interface.http.response object with the request's response, or throws an exception if the server cannot be reached.
  • request_method: GET or POST
  • host: Hostname to retrieve
  • port: Port to use for connection
  • path: Path to retrieve
  • options: Request options.
• process_request(req_parser, req_method): Processes an HTTP request.
  • req_parser: Request handler object.
  • req_method: Method to process request.