Re: library(http/http_client) with https URLs

On 07/18/2013 03:11 PM, Michael Hendricks wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 6:59 AM, Jan Wielemaker <[email protected]
> <mailto:[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

Assuming you have the data you want to post in Prolog, it is quite
likely that http_open/3 can do a better job.  Just, what is your data
and in what form do you want it posted?  Possibly, the example in
http://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/man?predicate=http_post_data/3 can
help you?
	
	--- Jan