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httr (version 0.2)

Tools for working with URLs and HTTP

Description

Provides useful tools for working with HTTP connections. Is a simplified wrapper built on top of RCurl. It is much much less configurable but because it only attempts to encompass the most common operations it is also much much simpler.

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Install

install.packages('httr')

Monthly Downloads

1,080,143

Version

0.2

License

MIT

Maintainer

Hadley Wickham

Last Published

October 11th, 2012

Functions in httr (0.2)

Take action on http error.

Use http authentication.

Send PATCH request to a server.

Create a handle tied to a particular host.

Set curl options.

Give information on the status of a request.

Extract content from a request.

Create an OAuth application.

Parse a media type.

Create a vector with case insensitive name matching.

Sign an OAuth 2.0 request

Give verbose output.

Make bin at http://requestb.in/

Add additional headers to a request.

Set user agent.

Use a proxy to connect to the internet.

Sign an OAuth 1.0 request

Send a DELETE request.

Get url HEADers.

Execute code with configuration set.

Set maximum request time.

Retrieve OAuth 2.0 access token.

Describe an OAuth endpoint.

httr makes http easy.

The oauth callback url.

Create a webserver to listen for OAuth callback.

Guess the media type of a path from it's extension.

Maintain a pool of handles.

Upload a file with POST or PUT.

The response object.

Check for an http success status.

Send PUT request to server.

Retrieve OAuth 1.0 acces token.

Parse and build urls according to RFC1808.

Open specified url in browser.

Check for an http OK status.

POST file to a server.

Set (and reset) global httr configuration.