Websockets HTTP

Basics

The HTTP wrapper is used to issue arbitrary HTTP calls to this server through the websocket. This reduces the overhead of creating new HTTP requests each time, in particular the overhead of a new TLS handshake.

Use an action of value http in all requests.

Fields

• request - This is the actual HTTP request, which has the following subfields:

HTTP Request Object

• uri - The full URI of the request e.g. http://i.ld.is:8211/somebox
• method - The HTTP method to emulate, e.g. POST, GET, PUT
• path - The path of the request e.g. /somebox
• params - GET parameters as a subobject in the format:

{"keyname": ["value1", "value2"], "anotherkey", ["value"]} - note that values are always arrays.

• content - The body of the HTTP request, usually POST variables when POST is the method.

Response

As with other methods, the respond_to will be set to http, and requestid will match the incoming requestid from the request.