plainleaf/website/API/net.md

Network-related APIs.

net.proxyRequest(url, options?)

Performs a HTTP call, proxied via the server (to avoid CORS issues, see HTTP API).

Options:

• method: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE (GET is default)
• headers: table with header -> value mappings
• body: either a string or table (which will be JSON stringified)

Returns:

• ok: boolean if the request went ok
• status: HTTP status code
• headers: HTTP headers
• body: for content types:
  • text/*: string
  • application/json: parsed JSON object
  • anything else: UInt8Array

net.readURI(uri, options?)

Fetches the content of a URIs.

Options:

• encoding force an encoding for the result, e.g. {encoding = "text/markdown"}

net.writeURI(uri, content)

Writes content to a specific URIs.