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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])

Make an HTTP request to the specified URL.

If json=True, the response is parsed into Python objects (dicts/lists/etc), and ‘data’ is JSON-encoded before sending.

‘headers’ can be a dict of strings to set HTTP headers. If specified, ‘username’ and ‘password’ will be used to perform HTTP Basic authentication.

    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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        anvil.http