*vital-web-http.txt*	simple HTTP client library.

Maintainer: mattn <mattn.jp@gmail.com>
            thinca <thinca+vim@gmail.com>

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CONTENTS				*Vital.Web.HTTP-contents*

INTRODUCTION				|Vital.Web.HTTP-introduction|
INTERFACE				|Vital.Web.HTTP-interface|
  Functions				|Vital.Web.HTTP-functions|
  Response				|Vital.Web.HTTP-response|

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INTRODUCTION				*Vital.Web.HTTP-introduction*

*Vital.Web.HTTP* is an HTTP Utilities Library.  It provides a simple HTTP
client.

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INTERFACE				*Vital.Web.HTTP-interface*
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FUNCTIONS				*Vital.Web.HTTP-functions*

get({url}, {param}, {header})		*Vital.Web.HTTP.get()*
	Send a GET request to the server.
	This is just a wrapper of |Vital.Web.HTTP.request()|.

post({url}, {param}, {header})		*Vital.Web.HTTP.post()*
	Send a POST request to the server.
	This is just a wrapper of |Vital.Web.HTTP.request()|.

request([{settings}])			*Vital.Web.HTTP.request()*
request({url} [, {settings}])
request({method}, {url} [, {settings}])
	Send a request to the server.
	This function requires one of the clients, "curl" or "wget".
	{settings} is a |Dictionary| which contains the following items:

	"url"		Required
		URL of a server.

	"method"	Default: "GET"
		HTTP Method.

	"param"		Default: (None)
		GET parameters.  This is a string or a dictionary.
		If dictionary, it is converted to a string by
		|Vital.Web.HTTP.encodeURI()|.
		This is appended to url.

	"data"		Default: (None)
		POST data.  This is a string, a list, or a dictionary.
		If it is a dictionary, it is converted to a string by
		|Vital.Web.HTTP.encodeURI()|.

	"headers"	Default: (None)
		Request headers.  This is a dictionary.

	"contentType"	Default: (None)
		Content-Type for "data".
		This is one of "headers".  This is used preferentially.

	"outputFile"	Default: (None)
		Output the result to this file.
		"content" of the result become empty when this is specified.

	"timeout"	Default: (None)
		Network timeout by seconds.

	"username"	Default: (None)
		User name for an HTTP authentication.

	"password"	Default: (None)
		Password for an HTTP authentication.

	"maxRedirect"	Default: 20
		Maximum number of redirections.
		The default is 20, which is usually far more than necessary.

	"retry"		Default: 1
		Maximum number of retries.

	"client"	Default: ["python", "curl", "wget"]
		Candidate list of HTTP client to use for a request.
		The first available one is used.
		A string as an HTTP client is also possible.
		See also |Vital.Web.HTTP-client|.

	"command"
		Command name for a client.  You should use with "client".
		This is a |Dictionary| that has client name as key and has the
		command as value.
		This maybe becomes like the following. >
		{
		  "curl": "/usr/bin/curl",
		  "wget": "/usr/local/bin/wget",
		}

	"authMethod"	Default: (None)
		(This is only valid for "curl" interface.)
		Specify the authorization method.
		The value must be in ['basic', 'digest', 'ntlm', 'negotiate']
		The default value is None, and then use "anyauth".

	"gzipDecompress"	Default: 0
		Attempt to decompress response data as if it was gzipped

parseHeader({headers})			*Vital.Web.HTTP.parseHeader()*
	Parse {headers} list to a dictionary.
	Duplicated fields are overwritten.

encodeURI({param})			*Vital.Web.HTTP.encodeURI()*
	Encode params as URI query.

decodeURI({str})			*Vital.Web.HTTP.decodeURI()*
	Decode string as URI params.

encodeURIComponent({str})		*Vital.Web.HTTP.encodeURIComponent()*
	Encode param as URI components.

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RESPONSE				*Vital.Web.HTTP-response*

|Vital.Web.HTTP.request()|, |Vital.Web.HTTP.get()|, and |Vital.Web.HTTP.post()|
return data structure as |Directory| like following.
>
	{
	  "header": [
	    "Content-Type: text/html",
	    "Content-Length: 310"
	  ],
	  "content": "<html> .....",
	  "status": 200,
	  "statusText": "OK",
	  "success": 1,
	}
<
"header"
		The header lines of a response.  This can convert to
		|Dictionary| by |Vital.Web.HTTP.parseHeader()|.

"content"
		The content of a response.

"status"
		The http status code of a response.
		If the code couldn't take, this is 0.

"statusText"
		The http status code text of a response.
		If the code couldn't take, this is the empty string.

"success"
		This is 1 if the "status" is 2xx.



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CLIENT					*Vital.Web.HTTP-client*

The following can be used.
(TODO: More document.  Especially about limitation.)

python					*Vital.Web.HTTP-client-python*
	Use Python's urllib2 library via |if_python|.

curl					*Vital.Web.HTTP-client-curl*
	Use curl command.

	http://curl.haxx.se/

wget					*Vital.Web.HTTP-client-wget*
	Use wget command.

	http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/



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