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HTTP POST Request

Source: R/http_transport.R
http_post.Rd

Performs HTTP POST request using httr. Mirrors http_get() but for POST requests with a body payload.

Usage

http_post(
  url,
  body,
  timeout = 120,
  accept = NULL,
  content_type = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

url

Character string with the full URL

body

Character string with the POST request body (typically an SDMX filter key for large queries)

timeout

Numeric timeout in seconds

accept

Character string with Accept header value

content_type

Character string with Content-Type header value. Defaults to "application/x-www-form-urlencoded".

verbose

Logical whether to log status messages

Value

A list with components:

  • success: Logical indicating if request succeeded

  • content: Character string with response body (or NULL)

  • status_code: HTTP status code (or NA)

  • error: Error message if failed (or NULL)

  • method: Character "httr"

  • headers: Response headers list (when available)