Function “requestHTTP”

function requestHTTP(method, url[, headers, body])

Performs a HTTP request

Performs a HTTP request and returns the reply as an object.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
`method`	string	The HTTP method to use (e.g. `"GET"` or `"POST"`)
`url`	string	The URL to request
`headers`	array of values (optional)	An optional array of `key`/`value` objects to pass as additional request headers
`body`	array of bytes (optional)	Optional contents for the request body

Return Value

Returns an object with the fields statusCode, headers and body.

Example

try {
	res = requestHTTP("GET", "http://bildhuus.com/");
	if (res.statusCode == 200)
		alert("bildhuus.com is reachable and OK");
	else
		alert("bildhuus.com is reachable, but returned " + res.statusCode);
} catch (err) {
	alert("bildhuus.com is not reachable: " + err);
}