httpclient

Httpclient task act as a http client. it can do most your browser can do except renderering.

HTTP Client Task

Support GET, PUT, POST, DELETE, HEAD and OPTIONS

Input

    http.use_shared_cookies: default true, identify if this httpclient will read cookies from share data section

    http.cookies: optional, output of other HTTPClientTask

    http.address: a String or a Java URI

    http.method: GET, PUT, POST, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS, optional, default to POST



    http.post.string: optional, the data as a plain text which will post to server



    http.post.file.filename: optional, the file you'd like to upload



  

Output

    http.cookies: the http context current task have (may created by this task or passed in from input)

    http.content: http content returned from server
    http.content.string: http content returned from server, converted into string

    http.status.code

    http.header. : all headers returned from server

  

• GET The HTTP GET method is defined in section 9.3 of RFC2616: The GET method means retrieve whatever information (in the form of an entity) is identified by the Request-URI.
• PUT HTTP PUT method. The HTTP PUT method is defined in section 9.6 of RFC2616: The PUT method requests that the enclosed entity be stored under the supplied Request-URI.
• POST HTTP POST method. The HTTP POST method is defined in section 9.5 of RFC2616: The POST method is used to request that the origin server accept the entity enclosed in the request as a new subordinate of the resource identified by the Request-URI in the Request-Line.
• DELETE HTTP DELETE method The HTTP DELETE method is defined in section 9.7 of RFC2616: The DELETE method requests that the origin server delete the resource identified by the Request-URI.
• HEAD HTTP HEAD method. The HTTP HEAD method is defined in section 9.4 of RFC2616: The HEAD method is identical to GET except that the server MUST NOT return a message-body in the response.
• OPTIONS HTTP OPTIONS method. The HTTP OPTIONS method is defined in section 9.2 of RFC2616: The OPTIONS method represents a request for information about the communication options available on the request/response chain identified by the Request-URI.