requests 0.1.2

dlang-requests

HTTP requests library with goals:

• small memory footprint
• performance
• simple, high level API

API docs: Wiki

In simplest scenario you just need to fetch document from remote site. In this case you can call getContent

    auto r = getContent("https://httpbin.org/stream/20");
    assert(r.splitter('\n').filter!("a.length>0").count == 20);

getContent returns Buffer, filled with data. Buffer looks like Appender!ubyte (it have method data()), but also support Range operations.

When you need access to response code, you have to use Request struct for interface:

    auto rq = Request();
    auto rs = rq.get("https://httpbin.org/");
    assert(rs.code==200);

For anything other than default, you can configure Request structure for keep-alive, compressed requests, for different io buffer and maximum sizes of response headers and body.

For example to authorize with Basic authorization use next code:

    rq = Request();
    rq.authenticator = new BasicAuthentication("user", "passwd");
    rs = rq.get("http://httpbin.org/basic-auth/user/passwd");

Here is short descrition of some Request options:

Usage example:

 auto rq = Request();
 auto rs = rq.get("http://httpbin.org/");
 writeln(rs.responseBody.data!string);

 rq.keepAlive = true;
 rs = rq.post("http://httpbin.org/post", `{"a":"b", "c":[1,2,3]}`, "application/json");
 assert(rs.code==200);

 auto f = File("tests/test.txt", "rb");
 rs = rq.post("http://httpbin.org/post", f.byChunk(3), "application/octet-stream");
 assert(rs.code==200);
 auto data = parseJSON(rs.responseBody.data).object["data"].str;
 assert(data=="abcdefgh\n12345678\n");
 f.close();

For Windows users

Requests distributed with binary ssl and crypto libraries. These libararies were downloaded from https://slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html (full version) and converted using "implib /system" http://ftp.digitalmars.com/bup.zip. If you know better way to link windows libraries, please, let me know.