httpbin VS axios

We proceed to define routes to https://httpbin.org/ to test our setup. Let's call the route to /get:

https://httpbin.org/ is an excellent tool for learning (and testing) the basics. Take a few minutes to explore the endpoints they provide. You can also use different response codes to test your apps error handling, etc

export FABI_PROD="http://httpbin.org/" export FABI_LOCAL="http://0.0.0.0:8000/"

use anyhow; use embedded_svc::http::client::Client; use embedded_svc::wifi::{AuthMethod, ClientConfiguration, Configuration}; use esp_idf_hal::peripherals::Peripherals; use esp_idf_svc::eventloop::EspSystemEventLoop; use esp_idf_svc::http::client::{Configuration as HttpConfig, EspHttpConnection}; use esp_idf_svc::nvs::EspDefaultNvsPartition; use esp_idf_svc::wifi::{BlockingWifi, EspWifi}; fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> { esp_idf_sys::link_patches(); // Configure Wifi let peripherals = Peripherals::take().unwrap(); let sysloop = EspSystemEventLoop::take()?; let nvs = EspDefaultNvsPartition::take()?; let mut wifi = BlockingWifi::wrap( EspWifi::new(peripherals.modem, sysloop.clone(), Some(nvs))?, sysloop, )?; wifi.set_configuration(&Configuration::Client(ClientConfiguration { ssid: "SSID".into(), bssid: None, auth_method: AuthMethod::None, password: "PASSWORD".into(), channel: None, }))?; // Start Wifi wifi.start()?; // Connect Wifi wifi.connect()?; // Wait until the network interface is up wifi.wait_netif_up()?; // Print Out Wifi Connection Configuration while !wifi.is_connected().unwrap() { // Get and print connection configuration let config = wifi.get_configuration().unwrap(); println!("Waiting for station {:?}", config); } println!("Wifi Connected, Intiatlizing HTTP"); // HTTP Configuration // Create HTTPS Connection Handle let httpconnection = EspHttpConnection::new(&HttpConfig { use_global_ca_store: true, crt_bundle_attach: Some(esp_idf_sys::esp_crt_bundle_attach), ..Default::default() })?; // Create HTTPS Client let mut httpclient = Client::wrap(httpconnection); // HTTP Request Submission // Define URL let url = "https://httpbin.org/get"; // Prepare request let request = httpclient.get(url)?; // Log URL and type of request println!("-> GET {}", url); // Submit Request and Store Response let response = request.submit()?; // HTTP Response Processing let status = response.status(); println!("<- {}", status); match response.header("Content-Length") { Some(data) => { println!("Content-Length: {}", data); } None => { println!("No Content-Length Header"); } } match response.header("Date") { Some(data) => { println!("Date: {}", data); } None => { println!("No Date Header"); } } Ok(()) }

has_domain: whether the matched route references an upstream with a domain, e.g., http://httpbin.org, or not, e.g., 192.168.0.1

But where does the data go now? By default, the form data is sent to the URL of the page containing the form — the current page, actually. Generally, all the data should be sent to a server to store and be handled. We can set up a server like Next.js, but it's a big separate topic to discover. You can learn more about it in our tutorial. In this post, I suggest concentrating on uploading staff and using httpbin — a simple OSS HTTP Request & Response Service.

Note, you can use any library for HTTP requests like axios. This example uses the http and node-fetch libraries available on npm.

Interact with other APIs over an encrypted channel. For example, you can use Axios with Node.js.

For this article, I will be using the TypeScript Starter template as shown in the screenshot above. This comes with Nodejs, Cheerio, Axios

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For this tutorial, we’re going to scan the file for malware using Verisys Antivirus API, and so we’ll add a package to make it easier to make external HTTP requests. Popular choices include Axios and node-fetch - for this article, we’ll use node-fetch

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Once you start to handle all the corner-cases of the fetch, you will find that you don't want to repeat the boilerplate each time you call network, so you will write some wrapper around the fetch or use redaxios library from Jason Miller, which provides axios-like API on top of fetch so it weights only 800 bytes, which is nice. But then you might need the axios interceptors which redaxios do not implement and if your application upload files and you want to track the upload progress with ProgressEvent, the fetch does not support that, only XMLHttpRequest does, on which the original axios is based. And after you write all your custom wrappers around fetch and upload wrappers around XMLHttpRequest, you might reconcider the original statement, that axios library is obsoleted.

Install the package Axios into your application like this: