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anvil.http Module

Classes

HttpError

Create a new ‘HttpError’ object

Constructor

HttpError()

HttpError Attributes

content - anvil.Media instance

The content returned by the request (eg the body of a 404 response)

status - number

The numeric HTTP status error (eg 404 for “not found”).

Status will be 0 for errors that prevent the request completing at all (eg cross-origin policy in the browser).

UrlEncodingError

Create a new ‘UrlEncodingError’ object

Constructor

UrlEncodingError()

Functions

request(url, [method="GET"], [data=None], [json=False], [headers=None], [username=None], [password=None], [timeout=None]) (more info)

Make an HTTP request to the specified URL.

  • url - The request will be made to this URL.

  • method - The HTTP method. Defaults to 'GET'.

  • data - The data to send in the request body

  • json - If set to True, the response is parsed into Python objects (dicts/lists/etc), and 'data' is JSON-encoded before sending. If False, the response will be a Media object.

  • headers - A dict of strings to set HTTP headers

  • username - If specified, used to perform HTTP Basic authentication

  • password - If specified, used to perform HTTP Basic authentication

  • timeout - An int or float representing the amount of time, in seconds, to wait for a response. Default is 60 seconds.

url_decode(string_to_encode)

URL-decode a string. Raises UrlEncodingError on failure.

    url_encode(string_to_encode)

    URL-encode a string

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