BROWSE function

Open specified url in browser.

(This isn't really a http verb, but it seems to follow the same format).

BROWSE(url = NULL, config = list(), ..., handle = NULL)

Arguments

• url: the url of the page to retrieve

• config: All configuration options are ignored because the request is handled by the browser, not RCurl.

• ...: Further named parameters, such as query, path, etc, passed on to modify_url(). Unnamed parameters will be combined with config().

• handle: The handle to use with this request. If not supplied, will be retrieved and reused from the handle_pool()

  based on the scheme, hostname and port of the url. By default httr

  requests to the same scheme/host/port combo. This substantially reduces connection time, and ensures that cookies are maintained over multiple requests to the same host. See handle_pool() for more details.

Returns

A response() object.

Details

Only works in interactive sessions.

Examples

BROWSE("http://google.com")
BROWSE("http://had.co.nz")

See Also

Other http methods: DELETE(), GET(), HEAD(), PATCH(), POST(), PUT(), VERB()