#lang scribble/doc @(require "common.rkt" scribble/bnf (for-label net/http-client racket/list openssl)) @title[#:tag "http-client"]{HTTP Client} @defmodule[net/http-client]{The @racketmodname[net/http-client] library provides utilities to use the HTTP protocol.} @defproc[(http-conn? [x any/c]) boolean?]{ Identifies an HTTP connection. } @defproc[(http-conn-live? [x any/c]) boolean?]{ Identifies an HTTP connection that is "live", i.e. one for which @racket[http-conn-send!] is valid. } @defproc[(http-conn) http-conn?]{ Returns a fresh HTTP connection. } @defproc[(http-conn-open! [hc http-conn?] [host (or/c bytes? string?)] [#:ssl? ssl? (or/c boolean? ssl-client-context? symbol?) #f] [#:port port (between/c 1 65535) (if ssl? 443 80)]) void?]{ Uses @racket[hc] to connect to @racket[host] on port @racket[port] using SSL if @racket[ssl?] is not @racket[#f] (using @racket[ssl?] as an argument to @racket[ssl-connect] to, for example, check certificates.) If @racket[hc] is live, the connection is closed. } @defproc[(http-conn-open [host (or/c bytes? string?)] [#:ssl? ssl? (or/c boolean? ssl-client-context? symbol?) #f] [#:port port (between/c 1 65535) (if ssl? 443 80)]) http-conn?]{ Calls @racket[http-conn-open!] with a fresh connection, which is returned. } @defproc[(http-conn-close! [hc http-conn?]) void?]{ Closes @racket[hc] if it is live. } @defproc[(http-conn-abandon! [hc http-conn?]) void?]{ Closes the output side of @racket[hc], if it is live. } @defproc[(http-conn-send! [hc http-conn-live?] [uri (or/c bytes? string?)] [#:version version (or/c bytes? string?) #"1.1"] [#:method method (or/c bytes? string? symbol?) #"GET"] [#:close? close? boolean? #f] [#:headers headers (listof (or/c bytes? string?)) empty] [#:content-decode decodes (listof symbol?) '(gzip)] [#:data data (or/c false/c bytes? string? data-procedure/c) #f]) void?]{ Sends an HTTP request to @racket[hc] to the URI @racket[uri] using HTTP version @racket[version], the method @racket[method], and the additional headers given in @racket[headers] and the additional data @racket[data]. If @racket[method] is @racket[#"HEAD"] (or @racket["HEAD"] or @racket['HEAD]), provide the same @racket[method] when calling @racket[http-conn-recv!] to avoid attempting to receive content. If @racket[data] is a procedure, it will be called once with a procedure of one argument, which is a string or byte string to be written to the request body using chunked transfer encoding. If @racket[headers] does not contain an @litchar{Accept-Encoding} header, then a header indicating that encodings from @racket[decodes] are accepted is automatically added. If @racket[close?] is @racket[#t] and @racket[headers] does not contain a @litchar{Connection} header, then a @litchar{Connection: close} header will be added. This function does not support requests that expect @litchar{100 (Continue)} responses. } @defproc[(http-conn-recv! [hc http-conn-live?] [#:content-decode decodes (listof symbol?) '(gzip)] [#:method method (or/c bytes? string? symbol?) #"GET"] [#:close? close? boolean? #f]) (values bytes? (listof bytes?) input-port?)]{ Parses an HTTP response from @racket[hc] for the method @racket[method] while decoding the encodings listed in @racket[decodes]. Returns the status line, a list of headers, and an port which contains the contents of the response. The port's content must be consumed before the connection is used further. If @racket[close?] is @racket[#t], then the connection will be closed following the response parsing. If @racket[close?] is @racket[#f], then the connection is only closed if the server instructs the client to do so. @history[#:changed "6.1.1.6" @elem{Added the @racket[#:method] argument.}]} @defproc[(http-conn-sendrecv! [hc http-conn-live?] [uri (or/c bytes? string?)] [#:version version (or/c bytes? string?) #"1.1"] [#:method method (or/c bytes? string? symbol?) #"GET"] [#:headers headers (listof (or/c bytes? string?)) empty] [#:data data (or/c false/c bytes? string? data-procedure/c) #f] [#:content-decode decodes (listof symbol?) '(gzip)] [#:close? close? boolean? #f]) (values bytes? (listof bytes?) input-port?)]{ Calls @racket[http-conn-send!] and @racket[http-conn-recv!] in sequence. } @defproc[(http-sendrecv [host (or/c bytes? string?)] [uri (or/c bytes? string?)] [#:ssl? ssl? (or/c boolean? ssl-client-context? symbol?) #f] [#:port port (between/c 1 65535) (if ssl? 443 80)] [#:version version (or/c bytes? string?) #"1.1"] [#:method method (or/c bytes? string? symbol?) #"GET"] [#:headers headers (listof (or/c bytes? string?)) empty] [#:data data (or/c false/c bytes? string? data-procedure/c) #f] [#:content-decode decodes (listof symbol?) '(gzip)]) (values bytes? (listof bytes?) input-port?)]{ Calls @racket[http-conn-send!] and @racket[http-conn-recv!] in sequence on a fresh HTTP connection produced by @racket[http-conn-open]. The HTTP connection is not returned, so it is always closed after one response, which is why there is no @racket[#:closed?] argument like @racket[http-conn-recv!]. } @defthing[data-procedure/c chaperone-contract?]{ Contract for a procedure that accepts a procedure of one argument, which is a string or byte string: @racket[(-> (-> (or/c bytes? string?) void?) any)]. } @section[#:tag "faq"]{Troubleshooting and Tips} @subsection{How do I send properly formatted POST form requests?} You should send a @litchar{Content-Type} header with the value @litchar{application/x-www-form-urlencoded} and send the data formatted by @racketmodname[net/uri-codec]'s @racket[form-urlencoded-encode] function. For example, @(require (for-label net/uri-codec)) @racketblock[ (http-send! hc "/login" #:method "POST" #:data (alist->form-urlencoded (list (cons 'username "Ryu") (cons 'password "Sheng Long"))) #:headers (list "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded")) ]