cURL / HTTPS PUT Request

[Christian Schmitt]

Hello, I got a HTTPS URL and I wanted to PUT some data to it.

With cURL I could easily cURL it with:

curl -X PUT -d status=START -d 'planid=10' https://api.jiffybox.de/<Token>/v1.0/jiffyBoxes/12345

Now I wanted to do this with Golang, cause I wanted to make this automatic.

I searched the HTTP Library but I didn't find anything to make a HTTPS Request, so how could I do it?

[Kyle Lemons]

1.  Create a string reader with your data (or some other io.Reader) http://golang.org/pkg/strings/#NewReader encoded from the form Values http://golang.org/pkg/net/url/#Values.Encode (or just hand-code it)

2.  Make a new PUT request http://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#NewRequest with the reader as the body

3.  Execute the request with the http.DefaultClient http://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#Client.Do

[Volker Dobler]

On Apr 30, 10:27 pm, Christian Schmitt <c.schm...@briefdomain.de>
wrote:

> I searched the HTTP Library but I didn't find anything to make a HTTPS
> Request, so how could I do it?

Did you try something like (untested pseudocode):
request, err := http.NewRequest("PUT", url, body)
response, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(request)
?

V

[Christian Schmitt]

Yeah I got this already:

package main

import "fmt"

import "net/http"

import "io/ioutil"

func main() {

client := &http.Client{}

req, _ := http.NewRequest("PUT", "https://api.jiffybox.de/HASH/v1.0/jiffyBoxes/ID", nil)

req.FormValue := "status=SHUTDOWN"

resp, _ := client.Do(req)

out, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)

resp.Body.Close()

fmt.Printf("%s", out)

}

Still I didn't need to know how to send the Data like "status=SHUTDOWN" or in json {"key1":value1} I only know how to make a request not how to send data.. that is my problem i know i need something with io.Reader but don't know how to make it correctly

[Christian Schmitt]

req.FormValue("status=SHUTDOWN") didn't work cause it will be ignored. but i don't know how to form a io.Reader with a string like "status=SHUTDOWN" or a json string. 

[Kyle Lemons]

Did you read my post?

[Christian Schmitt]

Oh my god.. No... Sorry dude..

it works know -.- missed the string.Reader() my solution was so close, but i overreaded you and the string reader...

solutions can be so easy..

[Christian Schmitt]

Another question.. I got a json as a response, but its not byte-encoded could i make it byte-encoded and decode it via unmarshal?

[Kyle Lemons]

The response includes a resp.Body which can be directly used via json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&obj)

[Brad Fitzpatrick]

What do you mean by "byte-encoded"?

[Christian Schmitt]

Ah yeah thanks got it. Golang is very easy.. some things should be described in my native language, then it would be easier but its okai.. i like the language. maps are amazing.

[Stephen Weinberg]

HTTPS is supported by default. Just give it an https:// address and it
will use SSL.

You can do a PUT by setting the Method string in your request.
http://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#Request

-- Stephen

On Apr 30, 1:27 pm, Christian Schmitt <c.schm...@briefdomain.de>
wrote: