``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 Create a HTTP session to a server 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 Create a HTTP session to a server 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 Send a DELETE request on the session object found using the alias Gets latest response in JSON format from given 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 Send a GET request on the session object found using the alias Returns HTTP status code of latest response for given 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 Send a HEAD request on the session object found using the 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 Send a OPTIONS request on the session object found using the 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 Send a PATCH request on the session object found using the 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 Send a POST request on the session object found using the content Prints out given string as pretty printed JSON. 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 Send a PUT request on the session object found using the alias expected HTTP status code Compares status code from latest response from given connection with given expected value. 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. Checks that latest response from given connection contains given expected value. Default check is case sensitive. content Convert a string to a JSON object. Convert a string to a JSON object.