Re: library(http/http_client) with https URLs

On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 6:59 AM, Jan Wielemaker <[email protected]> wrote:

> That might make sense.  For your particular problem though, using
> library(process) also merely gets you a stream, which is exactly
> what http_open/3 gives you.  I don't really get the point, unless
> there is some feature that http_open/3 doesn't do.  It should be
> happy to do HTTP, HTTPS, redirects, authentication and proxies.
>

For GET requests, http_open/3 is quite nice.  I use it regularly.  However,
after a couple hours investigating, I still haven't figured out how to make
it work with a POST request.  I'm probably missing something obvious.

After about two minutes experimentation, I successfully sent a POST request
with process_create/3 on top of /usr/bin/curl

-- 
Michael
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