httpPUT: Simple high-level functions for HTTP PUT and DELETE

Description

These two functions are simple, high-level functions that implement the HTTP request methods PUT and DELETE. These can also be done by specifying the method type using the curl option customrequest. These functions merely provide a convenience wrapper for getURLContent with the HTTP method specified.

Usage

httpPUT(url, content,  ..., curl = getCurlHandle())
httpPOST(url, ..., curl = getCurlHandle())
httpDELETE(url, ..., curl = getCurlHandle())
httpGET(url, ..., curl = getCurlHandle())
httpHEAD(url, ..., curl = getCurlHandle())
httpOPTIONS(url, ..., curl = getCurlHandle())

Value

The content returned by the server as a result of the request.

Arguments

url: the URL of the server to which the HTTP request is to be made
content: the value that is to be used as the content of the PUT request. This can be a character or a raw object.
...: additional arguments passed to getURLContent
curl: the curl handle to be used to make the request

Author

Duncan Temple Lang

Examples

Run this code

if (FALSE) {
   # create a database in a CouchDB server
 httpPUT("http://127.0.0.1:5984/temp_db")

   # Insert an entry into an ElasticSearch dabtabase.
 httpPUT("http://localhost:9200/a/b/axyz", '{"abc" : 123}')

   # Then delete the database
 httpDELETE("http://127.0.0.1:5984/temp_db")
}