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How to make a HTTP request in Nim

How to make a HTTP request in Nim?

Solution

  • This is answered in the first couple of lines of the httpclient documentation, along with POST, file POST, SSL, Proxy, timeouts and redirect handling...

    Sync:

    import std/httpclient

var client = newHttpClient()
echo client.getContent("http://google.com")

    Async:

    import std/[asyncdispatch, httpclient]

proc asyncProc(): Future[string] {.async.} =
  var client = newAsyncHttpClient()
  return await client.getContent("http://example.com")

echo waitFor asyncProc()