global yes ``HttpRequestLibrary`` is a [http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/|Robot Framework] test library that uses the [https://hc.apache.org/index.html|Apache HTTP client]. alias url headers= cookies= auth= timeout=0 proxy= verify=False debug=False Create a HTTP session to a server ``url`` Base url of the server ``alias`` Robot Framework alias to identify the session ``headers`` Dictionary of default headers ``auth`` List of username & password for HTTP Digest Auth ``timeout`` Connection timeout ``proxy`` Dictionary that contains proxy information. Only one proxy supported per session. Dictionary should contain at least following keys: *protocol*, *host* and *port* of proxy. It can also contain *username* and *password* ``verify`` Whether the SSL cert will be verified. A CA_BUNDLE path can also be provided. ``debug`` Enable http verbosity option more information. Note that this is not bound to session, but for the state of system. So if another session with debug=False is created, the earlier with debug=True is not printing debug from HTTPclient anymore alias url headers= cookies= auth= timeout=0 proxy= verify=False debug=False Create a HTTP session to a server ``url`` Base url of the server ``alias`` Robot Framework alias to identify the session ``headers`` Dictionary of default headers ``auth`` List of username & password for HTTP Basic Auth ``timeout`` Connection timeout ``proxy`` Dictionary that contains proxy information. Only one proxy supported per session. Dictionary should contain at least following keys: *protocol*, *host* and *port* of proxy. It can also contain *username* and *password* ``verify`` Whether the SSL cert will be verified. A CA_BUNDLE path can also be provided. ``debug`` Enable http verbosity option more information. Note that this is not bound to session, but for the state of system. So if another session with debug=False is created, the earlier with debug=True is not printing debug from HTTPclient anymore alias uri data='' params= headers= allow_redirects=True timeout=0 Send a DELETE request on the session object found using the given `alias` ``alias`` that will be used to identify the Session object in the cache ``uri`` to send the DELETE request to ``data`` a dictionary of key-value pairs that will be urlencoded and sent as DELETE data or binary data that is sent as the raw body content ``params`` url parameters to append to the uri ``headers`` a dictionary of headers to use with the request ``allow_redirects`` Boolean. Set to False if redirect following is not allowed. ``timeout`` connection timeout alias Gets latest response in JSON format from given alias. alias uri headers= params= allow_redirects=True timeout=0 Send a GET request on the session object found using the given `alias` ``alias`` that will be used to identify the Session object in the cache ``uri`` to send the GET request to ``params`` url parameters to append to the uri ``headers`` a dictionary of headers to use with the request ``allow_redirects`` Boolean. Set to False if redirect following is not allowed. ``timeout`` connection timeout alias Returns HTTP status code of latest response for given alias. alias uri headers= allow_redirects=False timeout=0 Send a HEAD request on the session object found using the given `alias` ``alias`` that will be used to identify the Session object in the cache ``uri`` to send the HEAD request to ``headers`` a dictionary of headers to use with the request ``allow_redirects`` Boolean. Set to True if redirect following is allowed. ``timeout`` connection timeout alias uri headers= allow_redirects=True timeout=0 Send a OPTIONS request on the session object found using the given `alias` ``alias`` that will be used to identify the Session object in the cache ``uri`` to send the OPTIONS request to ``headers`` a dictionary of headers to use with the request ``allow_redirects`` Boolean. Set to False if redirect following is not allowed. ``timeout`` connection timeout alias uri data= headers= files= allow_redirects=True timeout=0 Send a PATCH request on the session object found using the given `alias` ``alias`` that will be used to identify the Session object in the cache ``uri`` to send the PATCH request to ``data`` a dictionary of key-value pairs that will be urlencoded and sent as PATCH data or binary data that is sent as the raw body content ``headers`` a dictionary of headers to use with the request ``files`` a dictionary of file names containing file data to PATCH to the server ``allow_redirects`` Boolean. Set to False if redirect following is not allowed. ``timeout`` connection timeout alias uri data='' params= headers= files= allow_redirects=True timeout=0 Send a POST request on the session object found using the given `alias` ``alias`` that will be used to identify the Session object in the cache ``uri`` to send the POST request to ``data`` a dictionary of key-value pairs that will be urlencoded and sent as POST data or binary data that is sent as the raw body content ``params`` url parameters to append to the uri ``headers`` a dictionary of headers to use with the request ``files`` a dictionary of file names containing file data to POST to the server ``allow_redirects`` Boolean. Set to False if redirect following is not allowed. ``timeout`` connection timeout content Prints out given string as pretty printed JSON. alias uri data='' params= headers= files= allow_redirects=True timeout=0 Send a PUT request on the session object found using the given `alias` ``alias`` that will be used to identify the Session object in the cache ``uri`` to send the PUT request to ``data`` a dictionary of key-value pairs that will be urlencoded and sent as PUT data or binary data that is sent as the raw body content ``params`` url parameters to append to the uri ``headers`` a dictionary of headers to use with the request ``files`` a dictionary of file names containing file data to PUT to the server ``allow_redirects`` Boolean. Set to False if redirect following is not allowed. ``timeout`` connection timeout alias expected HTTP status code Compares status code from latest response from given connection with given expected value. alias expected content case_sensitive=False Checks that latest response from given connection contains given expected value. Default check is case sensitive. content Convert a string to a JSON object.