wwHTTP::Get
wwHTTP::Get
Uses an HTTP GET operation to retrieve Web content from a URL. GET operations pass only the URL and no content body data and expect back an HTTP response.
DO wwHttp
LOCAL loHttp as wwHttp
*** HTML response
loHttp = CREATEOBJECT("wwHttp")
lcHtml = loHttp.Get("https://microsoft.com")
? lcHtml
*** JSON Response
*** Prefer to recreate the object each time
loHttp = CREATEOBJECT("wwHttp")
lcJson = loHttp.Get("https://api.exchangeratesapi.io/latest")
? lcJson
Please also see wwHttp::HttpGet and Access Http Content over the Web
o.Get(lcUrl, lcUserName, lcPassword, lcOutputFile)
Return Value
String - HTTP result, which most likely will be HTML, but can be whatever data the link returns. This includes XML and binary data like Word documents or even data files. On error this string will be blank and the nError and cErrorMsg properties will be set.
Parameters
lcUrl
The full URL you want to retrieve. This URL must include the protocol (HTTP or HTTPS for example) and the Domain Name or IP Address. Example:
http://www.west-wind.com/wwipstuff.asp
lcUserName
Optional - Username used for Basic Authentication
lcPassword
Optional - Password used for Basic Authentication
lcFileName
An optional path into which to download the content into. If this parameter is used the return value from this method will always return blank and only the file is created on success. To check for errors, check the nError/cErrorMsg and the cResultCode properties.
See also:
Class wwHTTP | wwHTTP::HTTPGet (deprcated)
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