class HTTP::Request

Overview

An HTTP request.

It serves both to perform requests by an HTTP::Client and to represent requests received by an HTTP::Server.

A request always holds an IO as a body. When creating a request with a String or Bytes its body will be a IO::Memory wrapping these, and the Content-Length header will be set appropriately.

NOTE To use Request, you must explicitly import it with require "http/request"

Defined in:

http/request.cr

Constructors

Class Method Summary

Instance Method Summary

Instance methods inherited from class Reference

==(other : self)
==(other : JSON::Any)
==(other : YAML::Any)
==(other)
==
, dup dup, hash(hasher) hash, initialize initialize, inspect(io : IO) : Nil inspect, object_id : UInt64 object_id, pretty_print(pp) : Nil pretty_print, same?(other : Reference) : Bool
same?(other : Nil)
same?
, to_s(io : IO) : Nil to_s

Constructor methods inherited from class Reference

new new

Instance methods inherited from class Object

! : Bool !, !=(other) !=, !~(other) !~, ==(other) ==, ===(other : JSON::Any)
===(other : YAML::Any)
===(other)
===
, =~(other) =~, as(type : Class) as, as?(type : Class) as?, class class, dup dup, hash(hasher)
hash
hash
, in?(collection : Object) : Bool
in?(*values : Object) : Bool
in?
, inspect(io : IO) : Nil
inspect : String
inspect
, is_a?(type : Class) : Bool is_a?, itself itself, nil? : Bool nil?, not_nil!(message)
not_nil!
not_nil!
, pretty_inspect(width = 79, newline = "\n", indent = 0) : String pretty_inspect, pretty_print(pp : PrettyPrint) : Nil pretty_print, responds_to?(name : Symbol) : Bool responds_to?, tap(&) tap, to_json(io : IO) : Nil
to_json : String
to_json
, to_pretty_json(indent : String = " ") : String
to_pretty_json(io : IO, indent : String = " ") : Nil
to_pretty_json
, to_s(io : IO) : Nil
to_s : String
to_s
, to_yaml(io : IO) : Nil
to_yaml : String
to_yaml
, try(&) try, unsafe_as(type : T.class) forall T unsafe_as

Class methods inherited from class Object

from_json(string_or_io, root : String)
from_json(string_or_io)
from_json
, from_yaml(string_or_io : String | IO) from_yaml

Constructor Detail

def self.new(method : String, resource : String, headers : Headers | Nil = nil, body : String | Bytes | IO | Nil = nil, version = "HTTP/1.1") #

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Class Method Detail

def self.from_io(io, *, max_request_line_size : Int32 = HTTP::MAX_REQUEST_LINE_SIZE, max_headers_size : Int32 = HTTP::MAX_HEADERS_SIZE) : HTTP::Request | HTTP::Status | Nil #

Returns a HTTP::Request instance if successfully parsed, nil on EOF or HTTP::Status otherwise.


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Instance Method Detail

def body : IO | Nil #

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def body=(body : String) #

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def body=(body : Bytes) #

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def body=(body : IO) #

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def body=(body : Nil) #

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def content_length #

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def content_length=(length : Int) #

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def cookies : HTTP::Cookies #

Returns a convenience wrapper around querying and setting cookie related headers, see HTTP::Cookies.


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def form_params : HTTP::Params #

Returns a convenience wrapper to parse form params, see URI::Params.


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def form_params? : HTTP::Params | Nil #

Returns a convenience wrapper to parse form params, see URI::Params. Returns nil in case the content type "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" is not present or the body is nil.


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def headers : Headers #

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def headers=(headers : Headers) #

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def host_with_port : String | Nil #

Returns request host with port from headers.

DEPRECATED Use headers["Host"]? instead.


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def hostname : String | Nil #

Extracts the hostname from Host header.

Returns nil if the Host header is missing.

If the Host header contains a port number, it is stripped off.


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def if_match : Array(String) | Nil #

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def if_none_match : Array(String) | Nil #

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def ignore_body? : Bool #

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def keep_alive? : Bool #

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def local_address : Socket::Address | Nil #

The network address of the HTTP server.

HTTP::Server will try to fill this property, and its value will have a format like "IP:port", but this format is not guaranteed. Middlewares can overwrite this value.

This property is not used by HTTP::Client.


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def local_address=(local_address : Socket::Address | Nil) #

The network address of the HTTP server.

HTTP::Server will try to fill this property, and its value will have a format like "IP:port", but this format is not guaranteed. Middlewares can overwrite this value.

This property is not used by HTTP::Client.


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def method : String #

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def method=(method : String) #

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def path : String #

Returns the request's path component.


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def path=(path) #

Sets request's path component.


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def query : String | Nil #

Lazily parses and returns the request's query component.


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def query=(value) #

Sets request's query component.


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def query_params : URI::Params #

Returns a convenience wrapper around querying and setting query params, see URI::Params.


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def remote_address : Socket::Address | Nil #

The network address that sent the request to an HTTP server.

HTTP::Server will try to fill this property, and its value will have a format like "IP:port", but this format is not guaranteed. Middlewares can overwrite this value.

Example:

class ForwarderHandler
  include HTTP::Handler

  def call(context)
    if ip = context.request.headers["X-Real-IP"]? # When using a reverse proxy that guarantees this field.
      context.request.remote_address = Socket::IPAddress.new(ip, 0)
    end
    call_next(context)
  end
end

server = HTTP::Server.new([ForwarderHandler.new, HTTP::LogHandler.new])

This property is not used by HTTP::Client.


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def remote_address=(remote_address : Socket::Address | Nil) #

The network address that sent the request to an HTTP server.

HTTP::Server will try to fill this property, and its value will have a format like "IP:port", but this format is not guaranteed. Middlewares can overwrite this value.

Example:

class ForwarderHandler
  include HTTP::Handler

  def call(context)
    if ip = context.request.headers["X-Real-IP"]? # When using a reverse proxy that guarantees this field.
      context.request.remote_address = Socket::IPAddress.new(ip, 0)
    end
    call_next(context)
  end
end

server = HTTP::Server.new([ForwarderHandler.new, HTTP::LogHandler.new])

This property is not used by HTTP::Client.


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def resource : String #

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def to_io(io) #

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def version : String #

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def version=(version : String) #

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