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httr (version 0.3)

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

0.3

License

MIT + file LICENSE

Maintainer

Hadley Wickham

Last Published

March 20th, 2014

Functions in httr (0.3)

insensitive

Create a vector with case insensitive name matching.
handle

Create a handle tied to a particular host.
handle_pool

Maintain a pool of handles.
DELETE

Send a DELETE request.
sign_oauth

Sign an OAuth request
HEAD

Get url HEADers.
oauth_endpoint

Describe an OAuth endpoint.
PUT

Send PUT request to server.
user_agent

Set user agent.
Token-class

OAuth token objects.
new_bin

Make bin at http://requestb.in/
init_oauth2.0

Retrieve OAuth 2.0 access token.
config

Set curl options.
oauth_exchanger

Walk the user through the OAuth2 dance without a local webserver.
oauth_callback

The oauth callback url.
parse_media

Parse a media type.
http_condition

Generate a classed http condition.
hmac_sha1

HMAC SHA1
timeout

Set maximum request time.
oauth_app

Create an OAuth application.
BROWSE

Open specified url in browser.
PATCH

Send PATCH request to a server.
oauth_listener

Create a webserver to listen for OAuth callback.
oauth_endpoints

Popular oauth endpoints.
POST

POST file to a server.
parse_url

Parse and build urls according to RFC1808.
verbose

Give verbose output.
use_proxy

Use a proxy to connect to the internet.
httr

httr makes http easy.
url_ok

Check for an http OK status.
http_status

Give information on the status of a request.
authenticate

Use http authentication.
content

Extract content from a request.
oauth2.0_token

Generate an oauth2.0 token.
guess_media

Guess the media type of a path from its extension.
new_token

Generate and initialise new token.
set_cookies

Set cookies.
http_error

Take action on http error.
GET

GET a url.
init_oauth1.0

Retrieve OAuth 1.0 access token.
upload_file

Upload a file with POST or PUT.
oauth1.0_token

Generate an oauth1.0 token.
modify_url

Modify a url.
add_headers

Add additional headers to a request.
with_config

Execute code with configuration set.
set_config

Set (and reset) global httr configuration.
response

The response object.
url_success

Check for an http success status.