R: VERB a url.

VERB {httr} | R Documentation

## VERB a url.

### Description

Use an arbitrary verb.

### Usage

    VERB(verb, url = NULL, config = list(), ..., body = NULL,
      encode = c("multipart", "form", "json", "raw"), handle = NULL)

### Arguments

`verb` | Name of verb to use.
`url` | the url of the page to retrieve
`config` | Additional configuration settings such as http authentication (`authenticate`), additional headers (`add_headers`), cookies (`set_cookies`) etc. See `config` for full details and list of helpers.
`...` | Further named parameters, such as `query`, `path`, etc, passed on to `modify_url`. Unnamed parameters will be combined with `config`.
`body` | One of the following: `FALSE`: No body. This is typically not used with `POST`, `PUT`, or `PATCH`, but can be useful if you need to send a bodyless request (like `GET`) with `VERB()`. `NULL`: An empty body `""`: A length 0 body `upload_file("path/")`: The contents of a file. The mime type will be guessed from the extension, or can be supplied explicitly as the second argument to `upload_file()` A character or raw vector: sent as is in body. Use `content_type` to tell the server what sort of data you are sending. A named list: See details for encode.
`encode` | If the body is a named list, how should it be encoded? Can be one of form (application/x-www-form-urlencoded), multipart, (multipart/form-data), or json (application/json). For "multipart", list elements can be strings or objects created by `upload_file`. For "form", elements are coerced to strings and escaped, use `I()` to prevent double-escaping. For "json", parameters are automatically "unboxed" (i.e. length 1 vectors are converted to scalars). To preserve a length 1 vector as a vector, wrap in `I()`. For "raw", either a character or raw vector. You'll need to make sure to set the `content_type()` yourself.
`handle` | The handle to use with this request. If not supplied, will be retrieved and reused from the `handle_pool` based on the scheme, hostname and port of the url. By default httr requests to the same scheme/host/port combo. This substantially reduces connection time, and ensures that cookies are maintained over multiple requests to the same host. See `handle_pool` for more details.

### See Also

Other http methods: `BROWSE`, `DELETE`, `GET`, `HEAD`, `PATCH`, `POST`, `PUT`

### Examples

    r <- VERB("PROPFIND", "http://svn.r-project.org/R/tags/",
      add_headers(depth = 1), verbose())
    stop_for_status(r)
    content(r)

    VERB("POST", url = "http://httpbin.org/post")
    VERB("POST", url = "http://httpbin.org/post", body = "foobar")

[Package httr version 1.3.1 Index]