Http.put() | LuaRT free and open source Windows programming framework for Lua

Http:put(uri, content)

Send an asynchronous PUT request to the connected HTTP server to creates a new resource or replaces a representation of the target resource.

Sending the PUT request and receiveing the HTTP response is done by a Task asynchronously (other Tasks will be executed concurrently without blocking execution flow)

Parameters

uri

A string representing the target resource on the server.

content

A string or a File representing the content of the target resource on the server.

Return value

This method return a Task instance. Once the Task has finished, it will return two values :

The first value is the Http instance used for the PUT request.
The second value is nil in case of error or a table that contains the server response, with the following fields

"content" : a string containing the body part of the HTTP response
"elapsed" : a number representing the elapsed time to get the response
"status" : a number containing the HTTP response status
"reason" : a string containing HTTP response status text
"ok" : a boolean value indicating if the GET request succeeded
"headers" : a table containing a pair of strings(header field names of the HTTP response as key and content as values)
"cookies" : a table containing a pair of strings(cookies names of the HTTP response as key and content as values)

Example


local net = require "net"

local client = net.Http("https://httpbun.com")

local data ="Hello World !"

-- make a PUT request, and once its terminated, call the provided function, to process the response
client:put("/put", data).after = function (self, response)
  if not response then
    error(net.error)
  end
  print(response.content)
end

waitall()