Module http 

Talking to web servers: the client every download uses, and what a server says about a file before sending it.

Structs

Answer 🔒

What a server said about the file before its body.

ByteRange 🔒

The bytes of a file from from up to, but not including, to, or to the end of the file when to is None.

Enums

BadHeader 🔒

A header an app asked for that can’t be sent.

Constants

CONNECT_TIMEOUT 🔒

How long connecting, and then waiting for the server to start answering, may take.

RESPONSE_TIMEOUT 🔒

Functions

agent 🔒

content_range 🔒

Where a Content-Range such as bytes 100-199/200 starts, and the whole file’s length when it says, which * doesn’t.

get 🔒

Asks for url, or just range of it, sending headers too, giving what the server said and the body still to read. A server that can’t send part of a file sends all of it, which Answer::starts_at shows.

headers 🔒

Reads each of lines, written Name: value, as a header to send.

Type Aliases

Headers 🔒

The headers an app adds to each of a download’s requests, shared by its connections.