httpPUT function

Simple high-level functions for HTTP PUT and DELETE

These two functions are simple, high-level functions that implement the HTTP request methods PUT and DELETE. These can also be done by specifying the method type using the curl option customrequest. These functions merely provide a convenience wrapper for getURLContent

with the HTTP method specified.

httpPUT(url, content,  ..., curl = getCurlHandle())
httpPOST(url, ..., curl = getCurlHandle())
httpDELETE(url, ..., curl = getCurlHandle())
httpGET(url, ..., curl = getCurlHandle())
httpHEAD(url, ..., curl = getCurlHandle())
httpOPTIONS(url, ..., curl = getCurlHandle())

Arguments

• url: the URL of the server to which the HTTP request is to be made
• content: the value that is to be used as the content of the PUT request. This can be a character or a raw object.
• ...: additional arguments passed to getURLContent
• curl: the curl handle to be used to make the request

Returns

The content returned by the server as a result of the request.

Author(s)

Duncan Temple Lang

See Also

getURLContent

Examples

## Not run:

   # create a database in a CouchDB server
 httpPUT("http://127.0.0.1:5984/temp_db")

   # Insert an entry into an ElasticSearch dabtabase.
 httpPUT("http://localhost:9200/a/b/axyz", '{"abc" : 123}')

   # Then delete the database
 httpDELETE("http://127.0.0.1:5984/temp_db")
## End(Not run)