For completeness (and because for a lot of tasks it's easier than using a
body tag) I'd add a <http:param name="foo" value="bar" /> so that when using
posts or gets you can easily add dynamic parameters.
Mike
(PS I've already written this tag but it's under GPL so was rejected by
Apache - np, as they always say - there's more than one way to do it)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Strachan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 2:16 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: PROPOSAL: http tag library
>
>
> I've attached http-tags.jar which contains a HTTP tag library
> implementation
> I'd like to submit to the jakarta-taglibs project.
>
> The jar contains the full source and build system following the
> jakarta-taglibs guidelines and all source code has the Apache licence
> applied. (There are no dependencies on external software other
> than the JDK,
> servlets & JSP).
>
> The http tag library allows HTTP requests to be performed using JSP custom
> tags. I've found this particularly useful for doing HTTP GETs of external
> resources and performing HTTP POST operations to call SOAP or XML-RPC web
> services.
>
> The notation is currently very simple. It consists of a <http:request> tag
> for the request with optional child <http:header> tag for specifying HTTP
> headers and a single <http:body> tag for specifying a body for HTTP POSTS.
>
> For example to perform a HTTP GET:-
>
> <http:request url="http://jakarta.apache.org" action="GET"/>
>
> For a HTTP POST (to call a SOAP Babelfish service to translate
> some text):-
>
> <http:request url="http://services.xmethods.net:80/perl/soaplite.cgi"
> action="POST">
> <http:header name="SOAPAction" value="urn:xmethodsBabelFish#BabelFish"/>
> <http:header name="Content-Type" value="text/xml"/>
> <http:body>
> <SOAP-ENV:Envelope
> xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
> SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
> <SOAP-ENV:Body>
> <m:BabelFish xmlns:m="urn:xmethodsBabelFish">
> <translationmode>en_fr</translationmode>
> <sourcedata>SOAP is quite easy with JSP.</sourcedata>
> </m:BabelFish>
> </SOAP-ENV:Body>
> </SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
> </http:body>
> </http:request>
>
>
> Ultimately I'd like to extend the tag library to allow multipart
> posting of
> files and such like.
>
> Also I'd like to plug in a standard input / output sink mechanism (similar
> in essence to Pierre's iotransformer tag library proposal) - though I'd
> prefer to decouple the transformer into an 'InputSink' and an 'OutputSink'
> as a HTTP request may have input.and/or output.
>
> Any comments?
>
> <James/>
>
>
> James Strachan
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