curl_echo: Echo Service

In curl: A Modern and Flexible Web Client for R

Echo Service

Description

This function is only for testing purposes. It starts a local httpuv server to echo the request body and content type in the response.

Usage

curl_echo(handle, port = find_port(), progress = interactive(), file = NULL)

find_port(range = NULL)

Arguments

handle	a curl handle object
port	the port number on which to run httpuv server
progress	show progress meter during http transfer
file	path or connection to write body. Default returns body as raw vector.
range	optional integer vector of ports to consider

Examples

if(require('httpuv')){
h <- new_handle(url = 'https://hb.cran.dev/post')
handle_setform(h, foo = "blabla", bar = charToRaw("test"),
  myfile = form_file(system.file("DESCRIPTION"), "text/description"))

# Echo the POST request data
formdata <- curl_echo(h)

# Show the multipart body
cat(rawToChar(formdata$body))

# Parse multipart
webutils::parse_http(formdata$body, formdata$content_type)
}

curl documentation built on Sept. 30, 2024, 9:35 a.m.