[luci] Curl in LuCI?

[Helen Fornazier]

Hi Andrew,

I am really really sorry I didn't answer you.

Thanks a lot

Helen Fornazier


On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Andrew Reynolds <
andrew at opentechinstitute.org> wrote:

> On 12/06/2013 11:51 AM, Helen Fornazier wrote:
> > I see in LuCI many functions to parse http requests, but is there any
> > function to perform an http GET or POST requests? As a client?
>
> Hi Helen,
>
> You can perform http GET or POST requests using luci.httpclient (package
> luci-lib-httpclient). You will need one of the luci-lib-nixio-ssl
> packages to do https requests.
>
> I used the httpclient.request_raw() function, which requires you to
> define your http headers and message body, including the form
> parameters, then pass those values to the function.
>
> Here's how I did it. Unfortunately I didn't find any httpclient
> documentation, so this is just what worked for me through trial and error.
>
> In this snippet, I am submitting a machine hostname (hostname) and some
> json data (json_data) to a form on a central server (listener_url).
>
> --[[
> -- import httpclient
> local https = require "luci.httpclient"
>
> -- organize data
> local hostname="my.host"
> node_json="{string:value}"
>
> -- build request
> local listener_url="https://my.server/path_to_form"
> local options={}
> options.headers = {}
> options.headers["Connection"] = "keep-alive"
> options.headers["Content-Type"] = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
> options.sndtimeo = '100'
> options.rcvtimeo = '50'
> -- options.method can also use "GET"
> options.method = "POST"
> options.message= {}
> options.body = {}
> -- structure: options.body.formid = formvalue
> options.body.host = hostname
> options.body.json = node_json
>
> -- submit request
> https.request_raw(listener_url, options)
> ]]--
>
> Httpclient seems to have reasonable defaults, so you may not have to put
> a lot of effort into defining your http headers. The meat of the form is
> in options.body, where you just append key=value pairs corresponding to
> the form IDs and values. Don't forget to include any hidden values.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> -andrew
>
>
>
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