nano cURL - a minimalist http(s) client - async edition.

ncurl_aio(
  url,
  convert = TRUE,
  method = NULL,
  headers = NULL,
  data = NULL,
  response = NULL,
  timeout = NULL,
  tls = NULL
)

Arguments

url

the URL address.

convert

[default TRUE] logical value whether to attempt conversion of the received raw bytes to a character vector. Set to FALSE if downloading non-text data.

method

(optional) the HTTP method (defaults to 'GET' if not specified).

headers

(optional) a named character vector specifying the HTTP request headers, for example:
c(Authorization = "Bearer APIKEY", `Content-Type` = "text/plain")
A non-character or non-named vector will be ignored.

data

(optional) character request data to be submitted.

response

(optional) a character vector specifying the response headers to return e.g. c("date", "server"). These are case-insensitive and will return NULL if not present. A non-character vector will be ignored.

timeout

(optional) integer value in milliseconds after which the transaction times out if not yet complete.

tls

(optional) applicable to secure HTTPS sites only, a client TLS Configuration object created by tls_config. If missing or NULL, certificates are not validated.

Value

An 'ncurlAio' (object of class 'ncurlAio' and 'recvAio') (invisibly). The following elements may be accessed:

  • $status - integer HTTP repsonse status code (200 - OK). Use status_code for a translation of the meaning.

  • $headers - named list of response headers supplied in 'response', or NULL otherwise. If the status code is within the 300 range, i.e. a redirect, the response header 'Location' is automatically appended to return the redirect address.

  • $data - the response body, as a character string if 'convert' = TRUE (may be further parsed as html, json, xml etc. as required), or a raw byte vector if FALSE (use writeBin to save as a file).

See also

ncurl_session for persistent connections.

Examples

nc <- ncurl_aio("https://www.r-project.org/",
                response = c("date", "server"),
                timeout = 2000L)
call_aio(nc)
nc$status
#> [1] 200
nc$headers
#> $date
#> [1] "Wed, 01 May 2024 22:50:32 GMT"
#> 
#> $server
#> [1] "Apache"
#> 
nc$data
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