<function name="Fetch" parent="http" type="libraryfunc"> <description>Launches a GET request.</description> <realm>Shared and Menu</realm> <file line="18-L44">lua/includes/modules/http.lua</file> <args> <arg name="url" type="string">The URL of the website to fetch.</arg> <arg name="onSuccess" type="function">Function to be called on success. Arguments are&#xA;* {{FuncArg|string|body</arg>⤶ <arg name="onSuccess" type="function" default="nil">Function to be called on success. Arguments are&#xA;* &lt;page&gt;string&lt;/page&gt; body&#xA;* &lt;page&gt;string&lt;/page&gt; size - equal to &lt;page&gt;string.len(body)&lt;/page&gt;&#xA;* &lt;page&gt;table&lt;/page&gt; headers&#xA;* &lt;page&gt;number&lt;/page&gt; code - The HTTP success code</arg>⤶ <arg name="onFailure" type="function" default="nil">Function to be called on failure. Arguments are&#xA;* &lt;page&gt;string&lt;/page&gt; error - The error message</arg> <arg name="headers" type="table" default="{}">KeyValue table for headers</arg> </args> </function> ⤶ * <page>string</page> size - equal to <page>string.len(body)</page>⤶ * {{FuncArg|table|headers}}⤶ * <page>number</page> code - The HTTP success code⤶ |default=nil⤶ }}⤶ ⤶ ⤶ <example>⤶ ⤶ <example>⤶ <description>Shows the typical usage to get the HTML of a webpage.</description> <code> local TheReturnedHTML = "" -- Blankness http.Fetch( "http:&amp;#47;&amp;#47;www.google.com", function( body, len, headers, code ) -- The first argument is the HTML we asked for. TheReturnedHTML = body end, function( error ) -- We failed. =( end ) </code> <output>If it successfully fetched the page, the variable 'TheReturnedHTML' should contain the returned HTML in plain text.</output> </example>