Puppy - Fetch url resources via HTTP and HTTPS.

Getting content from a url should be as easy as readFile.

nimble install puppy

Puppy does not use Nim's HTTP stack, instead it uses win32 WinHttp API on Windows and libcurl on Linux and macOS. Because Puppy uses system APIs, there is no need to ship extra *.dlls, cacert.pem, or forget to pass the -d:ssl flag.

Furthermore, Puppy supports gzip transparently right out of the box.

Will not support async

import puppy

echo fetch("http://neverssl.com/")

Will return "" if any error accrued for any reason.

Need to pass headers?

import puppy

echo fetch(
  "http://neverssl.com/",
  headers = @[Header(key: "User-Agent", value: "Nim 1.0")]
)

Need a more complex API?

• verbs: GET, POST, PUT, UPDATE, DELETE..
• headers: User-Agent, Content-Type..
• response code: 200, 404, 500..
• response headers: Content-Type..
• error: timeout, DNS fail ...

Use request/response instead.

Request* = ref object
  url*: Url
  headers*: seq[Header]
  verb*: string
  body*: string

Response* = ref object
  url*: Url
  headers*: seq[Header]
  code*: int
  body*: string
  error*: string

Usage example:

let req = Request(
  url: parseUrl("http://www.istrolid.com"),
  verb: "get",
  headers: @[Header(key: "Auth", value: "1"))]
)
let res = fetch(req)
echo res.error
echo res.code
echo res.headers
echo res.body.len