request - Factor Documentation (original) (raw)

Vocabulary
http

Word description
An HTTP request.

Instances contain the following slots:

method The HTTP method as a string. The most frequently-used HTTP methods are GET, HEAD and POST.
url The url being requested
proxy-url The proxy url to use, or f for no proxy. If not f, the url will additionally be derive-url'd from the HTTP(S) proxy variables. The proxy is used if the result has at least the host slot set.
version The HTTP version. Default is 1.1 and should not be changed without good reason.
header An assoc of HTTP header values. See HTTP headers
post-data See HTTP post data
cookies A sequence of HTTP cookies. See HTTP cookies
redirects Number of redirects to attempt before throwing an error. Default is max-redirects.

Definition

TUPLE: request
method url proxy-url version header data cookies redirects ;

Methods