<function name="Fetch" parent="http" type="libraryfunc"> <description>Launches a GET request.</description>⤶ <description>Launches a GET request.⤶ <warning>HTTP-requests on private networks don't work. More at <page text="issue#3684">https://github.com/Facepunch/garrysmod-issues/issues/3684</page></warning>⤶ </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" default="nil">Function to be called on success. Arguments are * <page>string</page> body * <page>string</page> size - equal to <page>string.len(body)</page> * <page>table</page> headers * <page>number</page> code - The HTTP success code</arg> <arg name="onFailure" type="function" default="nil">Function to be called on failure. Arguments are * <page>string</page> error - The error message</arg> <arg name="headers" type="table" default="{}">KeyValue table for headers</arg> </args> </function> <example> <description>Shows the typical usage to get the HTML of a webpage.</description> <code> local TheReturnedHTML = "" -- Blankness http.Fetch( "http://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>