Add HTTP client function (GET/POST/etc.) about algernon

[seansbox]

I think this is a good approach. The verbosity is a good balance of flexibility and simplicity. Any reason to have to instantiate an object versus just having an httprequest function? Are there any stateful parameters or other methods? Looks like only autonomous function calls.

[xyproto]

With the httpclient branch it is now possible to perform GET requests like this:

HTTPClient():Get("http://www.guimp.com/")

Or by using a variable for the HTTPClient:

hc = HTTPClient()
hc:Get("http://www.guimp.com/")

Or with URL arguments:

HTTPClient():Get("https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/comments", {postId=1, id=2})

Or with URL arguments and HTTP headers:

HTTPClient():Get("https://www.whatismybrowser.com/detect/what-http-headers-is-my-browser-sending", {x=42}, {["X-PoweredBy"]="Bits and bytes"}):match('POWEREDBY.*</td>')

Or POST requests like this:

HTTPClient():Post("https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts", {}, {["Content-type"]="application/json; charset=UTF-8"}, JSON({title="foo", body="bar", userId=1}))

Does this seem like a somewhat viable approach, or is it too verbose?

[xyproto]

I added GET, POST and DO as shorthand functions, to the httpclient branch,

Unfortunately, the HTTPClient settings like timing and language seems to be possible to set only once, so I'll have to restructure how the object is stored before this will work, before merging.

[xyproto]

Closing this issue as fixed, please re-open this issue if there should be further issues with this.