Myna. HttpConnection

Connects to HTTP resources

Example

var h = new Myna.HttpConnection({
    url:"http://www.google.com/search?q=myna+javascript",
    method:"GET",
    parameters:{
        um:"1", //this looks in google groups instead of web search
    },
})
try {
    h.connect();

    Myna.dump(h.getStatusCode(),"Status")
    Myna.print(Myna.dump(h.responseHeaders,"headers"))
    Myna.print(h.url)
    Myna.print(h.getResponseText())
} catch(e){
    Myna.print(Myna.formatError(e) + Myna.dump(h))
}

Summary

Myna. HttpConnection	Connects to HTTP resources
Functions and Properties
Myna. HttpConnection	Constructor function for HttpConnection class
responseHeaders	object containing the response headers.
connect	connects to HTTP resource specified in constructor
getResponseText	returns http response body as text
getResponseXml	returns http response body as an E4X XML object
getResponseData	returns http response body as a byte array
getResponseStream	returns http response body as a stream
getStatusCode	returns http response status code

Functions and Properties

Myna. HttpConnection

Myna.HttpConnection = function( options )

Constructor function for HttpConnection class

Parameters

options	Object that describes the options for this connection. See below. Options:
url	URL to connect to. The query string can be appended. Example: http://www.google.com/search?q=myna+javascript
method	Optional default “GET” http method to use, one of GET,POST,PUT,DELETE
parameters	Optional default null Object representing parameters to pass to the connection. These are handled diffrently depending on method:

POST: these are the post parameters,
GET and PUT: these are the URL parametrers, unless that parameter is already specified in the URL.
DELETE: parameters are ignored

headers	Optional default null Object representing headers to send with this request
content	Optional default null For POST and PUT types, this is the content to send in the body of the request. Currently, this is expected to be a UTF-8 String.
contentType	Optional default “text/plain” content type of posted content
username	Optional default null username to send in a “Basic” auth header
password	Optional default null password to send in a “Basic” auth header
timeout	Optional, default null If specified, this is the amount of time in milliseconds to wait for a connection, or between data chunks. If null then timeouts are disabled. If a timeout occurs then a java.net.SocketTimeoutException or org.apache.commons.httpclient.ConnectTimeoutException is thrown

Returns

Reference to HttpConnection instance

responseHeaders

object containing the response headers.

connect

Myna.HttpConnection.prototype.connect=function( timeout )

connects to HTTP resource specified in constructor

returns this connection object

getResponseText

Myna.HttpConnection.prototype.getResponseText=function()

returns http response body as text

getResponseXml

Myna.HttpConnection.prototype.getResponseXml=function()

returns http response body as an E4X XML object

See

getResponseData

Myna.HttpConnection.prototype.getResponseData=function()

returns http response body as a byte array

getResponseStream

Myna.HttpConnection.prototype.getResponseStream=function()

returns http response body as a stream

getStatusCode

Myna.HttpConnection.prototype.getStatusCode=function()

returns http response status code