HTTP GET request

EazyHttp, easy, simple and fast HTTP requests for PHP, JavaScript, Python

version 1.2.0

supports

PHP (in any desired order)

• curl (if available)
• file_get_contents (if available)
• sockets/fsockopen (if available)

JavaScript/Browser (in any desired order)

• fetch (if available)
• XMLHttpRequest (if available)
• iframe (if available)

JavaScript/Node (in any desired order)

• http/https (if available)
• fetch (if available)

JavaScript/XPCOM

• XMLHttpRequest (if available)

Python (in any desired order)

• urllib
• socket

example

PHP

$http = new EazyHttp();

// HTTP GET request
$response = $http->option(
    'timeout',             30 // secs, default
)->option(
    'follow_redirects',    3 // default
)->option(
    'methods',             ['curl', 'file', 'socket'] // default order
)->get(
    'https://example.com/',
    ['foo' => 'bar'], // custom URL params
    ['User-Agent' => 'EazyHttp'], // custom Headers
    ['a_cookie' => 'some cookie value'] // custom Cookies
);

// HTTP POST request
$response = $http->option(
    'timeout',             30 // secs, default
)->option(
    'follow_redirects',    3 // default
)->option(
    'methods',             ['curl', 'file', 'socket'] // default order
)->post(
    'https://example.com/',
    ['foo' => 'bar'], // custom post data
    ['User-Agent' => 'EazyHttp'], // custom Headers
    ['a_cookie' => 'some cookie value'] // custom Cookies
);

echo json_encode($response); // stdClass: {status}, {content}, {headers}, {cookies}

JavaScript (browser and node)

const http = new EazyHttp();

// HTTP GET request
http.option(
    'timeout',             30 // secs, default
).option(
    'follow_redirects',     3 // default
).option(
    'methods',              ['http', 'fetch', 'xhr', 'iframe'] // default order
).option(
    'return_type',          'string' // default, 'string' or 'buffer'
).get(
    'https://example.com/',
    {'foo' : 'bar'}, // custom URL params
    {'User-Agent' : 'EazyHttp'}, // custom Headers
    {'a_cookie' : 'some cookie value'} // custom Cookies
).then(
    (response)  => console.log(JSON.stringify(response)) // Object: {status}, {content}, {headers}, {cookies}
);

// HTTP POST request
http.option(
    'timeout',             30 // secs, default
).option(
    'follow_redirects',     3 // default
).option(
    'methods',              ['http', 'fetch', 'xhr', 'iframe'] // default order
).option(
    'return_type',          'string' // default, 'string' or 'buffer'
).post(
    'https://example.com/',
    {'foo' : 'bar'}, // custom post data
    {'User-Agent' : 'EazyHttp'}, // custom Headers
    {'a_cookie' : 'some cookie value'} // custom Cookies
).then(
    (response)  => console.log(JSON.stringify(response)) // Object: {status}, {content}, {headers}, {cookies}
);

Python

http = EazyHttp()

# HTTP GET request
response = http.option(
    'timeout',             30 # secs, default
).option(
    'follow_redirects',    3 # default
).option(
    'methods',             ['urllib', 'socket'] # default order
).get(
    'https://example.com/',
    {'foo' : 'bar'}, # custom URL params
    {'User-Agent' : 'EazyHttp'}, # custom Headers
    {'a_cookie' : 'some cookie value'} # custom Cookies
)

# HTTP POST request
response = http.option(
    'timeout',             30 # secs, default
).option(
    'follow_redirects',    3 # default
).option(
    'methods',             ['urllib', 'socket'] # default order
).post(
    'https://example.com/',
    {'foo' : 'bar'}, # custom post data
    {'User-Agent' : 'EazyHttp'}, # custom Headers
    {'a_cookie' : 'some cookie value'} # custom Cookies
)

import json
print(json.dumps(response)) # dict: {status}, {content}, {headers}, {cookies}

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