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Delphi Indy http OPTIONS

I'd like to use the HTTP Options

OPTIONS /MyURL/DoCmd HTTP/1.1
Origin: http://www.asite.com
Access-Control-Request-Method: POST
Access-Control-Request-Headers: access-control-request-method

What is the way to make this with Indy ?

FIdHttp.Options('http://' + FHost + ':' + IntToStr(FPort) + '/MyURL/DoCmd', AResponseContent);

What will happen if the OPTIONS is not implemented by the server ?

Solution

  • What is the way to make this with Indy ?

    TIdHTTP in Indy 10 has 2 overloaded Options() methods:

    procedure Options(AURL: string; AResponseContent: TStream); overload;

function Options(AURL: string
  {$IFDEF STRING_IS_ANSI}; ADestEncoding: IIdTextEncoding = nil{$ENDIF}
  ): string; overload;

    What TIdHTTP does not have is native properties for the Origin and Access-Control-Request-... headers. However, you can use the TIdHTTP.Request.CustomHeaders property for those, eg:

    FIdHttp.Request.CustomHeaders.Values['Origin'] := 'http://www.asite.com';
FIdHttp.Request.CustomHeaders.Values['Access-Control-Request-Method'] := ' POST';
FIdHttp.Request.CustomHeaders.Values['Access-Control-Request-Headers'] := 'access-control-request-method';
FIdHttp.ProtocolVersion := pv1_1;

Response := FIdHttp.Options('http://www.asite.com/MyURL/DoCmd');
or
FIdHttp.Options('http://www.asite.com/MyURL/DoCmd', AResponseContent);

    What will happen if the OPTIONS is not implemented by the server ?

    The server will likely return an error code, which TIdHTTP will raise as an EIdHTTPProtocolException exception unless you enable the hoNoProtocolErrorException flag in the TIdHTTP.HTTPOptions property.