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The HTTP API allows interfacing with websites and downloading from them.

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HTTP (API)
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<tr><td style="width: 350px; background: #E0E0E0; padding: .4em; font-weight:bold;">Method Name</td><td style="background: #E0E0E0; padding: .4em; font-weight:bold;">Description</td></tr>

<tr style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"><td style="border-top: solid #C9C9C9 1px; padding: .4em;">[[http.request]]( {{type|string}} url, {{type|string}} *postData )</td>
<td style="border-top: solid #C9C9C9 1px; padding: .4em;">Sends a HTTP request to a website.</td></tr>

<tr style="background-color: #E8E8E8;"><td style="border-top: solid #C9C9C9 1px; padding: .4em;">[[http.get]]( {{type|string}} url )</td>
<td style="border-top: solid #C9C9C9 1px; padding: .4em;">Sends a HTTP GET request to a website.</td></tr>

<tr style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"><td style="border-top: solid #C9C9C9 1px; padding: .4em;">[[http.post]]( {{type|string}} url, {{type|string}} postData )</td>
<td style="border-top: solid #C9C9C9 1px; padding: .4em;">Sends a HTTP POST request to a website.</td></tr>
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A period of time after a http.request() call is made, a "http_success" or "http_failure" event will be raised to os.pullEvent(). Arguments are the URL and a file handle if successful. http.get() blocks until this event is fired.

[[Category:APIs]]