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<class name="HTTPRequest" inherits="Node" version="4.0">
	<brief_description>
		A node with the ability to send HTTP(S) requests.
	</brief_description>
	<description>
		A node with the ability to send HTTP requests. Uses [HTTPClient] internally.
		Can be used to make HTTP requests, i.e. download or upload files or web content via HTTP.
		[b]Example of contacting a REST API and printing one of its returned fields:[/b]
		[codeblock]
		func _ready():
		    # Create an HTTP request node and connect its completion signal.
		    var http_request = HTTPRequest.new()
		    add_child(http_request)
		    http_request.connect("request_completed", self, "_http_request_completed")

		    # Perform a GET request. The URL below returns JSON as of writing.
		    var error = http_request.request("https://httpbin.org/get")
		    if error != OK:
		        push_error("An error occurred in the HTTP request.")

		    # Perform a POST request. The URL below returns JSON as of writing.
		    # Note: Don't make simultaneous requests using a single HTTPRequest node.
		    # The snippet below is provided for reference only.
		    var body = {"name": "Godette"}
		    error = http_request.request("https://httpbin.org/post", [], true, HTTPClient.METHOD_POST, body)
		    if error != OK:
		        push_error("An error occurred in the HTTP request.")


		# Called when the HTTP request is completed.
		func _http_request_completed(result, response_code, headers, body):
		    var response = parse_json(body.get_string_from_utf8())

		    # Will print the user agent string used by the HTTPRequest node (as recognized by httpbin.org).
		    print(response.headers["User-Agent"])
		[/codeblock]
		[b]Example of loading and displaying an image using HTTPRequest:[/b]
		[codeblock]
		func _ready():
		    # Create an HTTP request node and connect its completion signal.
		    var http_request = HTTPRequest.new()
		    add_child(http_request)
		    http_request.connect("request_completed", self, "_http_request_completed")

		    # Perform the HTTP request. The URL below returns a PNG image as of writing.
		    var error = http_request.request("https://via.placeholder.com/512")
		    if error != OK:
		        push_error("An error occurred in the HTTP request.")


		# Called when the HTTP request is completed.
		func _http_request_completed(result, response_code, headers, body):
		    var image = Image.new()
		    var error = image.load_png_from_buffer(body)
		    if error != OK:
		        push_error("Couldn't load the image.")

		    var texture = ImageTexture.new()
		    texture.create_from_image(image)

		    # Display the image in a TextureRect node.
		    var texture_rect = TextureRect.new()
		    add_child(texture_rect)
		    texture_rect.texture = texture
		[/codeblock]

		[b]Gzipped response bodies[/b]
		HttpRequest will automatically handle decompression of response bodies.
		A "Accept-Encoding" header will be automatically added to each of your requests, unless one is already specified.
		Any response with a "Content-Encoding: gzip" header will automatically be decompressed and delivered to you as a uncompressed bytes.
		[b]Note:[/b] When performing HTTP requests from a project exported to HTML5, keep in mind the remote server may not allow requests from foreign origins due to [url=https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CORS]CORS[/url]. If you host the server in question, you should modify its backend to allow requests from foreign origins by adding the [code]Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *[/code] HTTP header.
	</description>
	<tutorials>
		<link title="Making HTTP requests">https://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/tutorials/networking/http_request_class.html</link>
		<link title="SSL certificates">https://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/tutorials/networking/ssl_certificates.html</link>
	</tutorials>
	<methods>
		<method name="cancel_request">
			<return type="void">
			</return>
			<description>
				Cancels the current request.
			</description>
		</method>
		<method name="get_body_size" qualifiers="const">
			<return type="int">
			</return>
			<description>
				Returns the response body length.
				[b]Note:[/b] Some Web servers may not send a body length. In this case, the value returned will be [code]-1[/code]. If using chunked transfer encoding, the body length will also be [code]-1[/code].
			</description>
		</method>
		<method name="get_downloaded_bytes" qualifiers="const">
			<return type="int">
			</return>
			<description>
				Returns the amount of bytes this HTTPRequest downloaded.
			</description>
		</method>
		<method name="get_http_client_status" qualifiers="const">
			<return type="int" enum="HTTPClient.Status">
			</return>
			<description>
				Returns the current status of the underlying [HTTPClient]. See [enum HTTPClient.Status].
			</description>
		</method>
		<method name="request">
			<return type="int" enum="Error">
			</return>
			<argument index="0" name="url" type="String">
			</argument>
			<argument index="1" name="custom_headers" type="PackedStringArray" default="PackedStringArray(  )">
			</argument>
			<argument index="2" name="ssl_validate_domain" type="bool" default="true">
			</argument>
			<argument index="3" name="method" type="int" enum="HTTPClient.Method" default="0">
			</argument>
			<argument index="4" name="request_data" type="String" default="&quot;&quot;">
			</argument>
			<description>
				Creates request on the underlying [HTTPClient]. If there is no configuration errors, it tries to connect using [method HTTPClient.connect_to_host] and passes parameters onto [method HTTPClient.request].
				Returns [constant OK] if request is successfully created. (Does not imply that the server has responded), [constant ERR_UNCONFIGURED] if not in the tree, [constant ERR_BUSY] if still processing previous request, [constant ERR_INVALID_PARAMETER] if given string is not a valid URL format, or [constant ERR_CANT_CONNECT] if not using thread and the [HTTPClient] cannot connect to host.
				[b]Note:[/b] The [code]request_data[/code] parameter is ignored if [code]method[/code] is [constant HTTPClient.METHOD_GET]. This is because GET methods can't contain request data. As a workaround, you can pass request data as a query string in the URL. See [method String.http_escape] for an example.
			</description>
		</method>
		<method name="request_raw">
			<return type="int" enum="Error">
			</return>
			<argument index="0" name="url" type="String">
			</argument>
			<argument index="1" name="custom_headers" type="PackedStringArray" default="PackedStringArray(  )">
			</argument>
			<argument index="2" name="ssl_validate_domain" type="bool" default="true">
			</argument>
			<argument index="3" name="method" type="int" enum="HTTPClient.Method" default="0">
			</argument>
			<argument index="4" name="request_data_raw" type="PackedByteArray" default="PackedByteArray(  )">
			</argument>
			<description>
				Creates request on the underlying [HTTPClient] using a raw array of bytes for the request body. If there is no configuration errors, it tries to connect using [method HTTPClient.connect_to_host] and passes parameters onto [method HTTPClient.request].
				Returns [constant OK] if request is successfully created. (Does not imply that the server has responded), [constant ERR_UNCONFIGURED] if not in the tree, [constant ERR_BUSY] if still processing previous request, [constant ERR_INVALID_PARAMETER] if given string is not a valid URL format, or [constant ERR_CANT_CONNECT] if not using thread and the [HTTPClient] cannot connect to host.
			</description>
		</method>
	</methods>
	<members>
		<member name="accept_gzip" type="bool" setter="set_accept_gzip" getter="is_accepting_gzip" default="true">
			If [code]true[/code], this header will be added to each request: [code]Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate[/code] telling servers that it's okay to compress response bodies.
			Any Response body declaring a [code]Content-Encoding[/code] of either [code]gzip[/code] or [code]deflate[/code] will then be automatically decompressed, and the uncompressed bytes will be delivered via [code]request_completed[/code].
			If the user has specified their own [code]Accept-Encoding[/code] header, then no header will be added regaurdless of [code]accept_gzip[/code].
			If [code]false[/code] no header will be added, and no decompression will be performed on response bodies. The raw bytes of the response body will be returned via [code]request_completed[/code].
		</member>
		<member name="body_size_limit" type="int" setter="set_body_size_limit" getter="get_body_size_limit" default="-1">
			Maximum allowed size for response bodies. If the response body is compressed, this will be used as the maximum allowed size for the decompressed body.
		</member>
		<member name="download_chunk_size" type="int" setter="set_download_chunk_size" getter="get_download_chunk_size" default="4096">
			The size of the buffer used and maximum bytes to read per iteration. See [member HTTPClient.read_chunk_size].
			Set this to a higher value (e.g. 65536 for 64 KiB) when downloading large files to achieve better speeds at the cost of memory.
		</member>
		<member name="download_file" type="String" setter="set_download_file" getter="get_download_file" default="&quot;&quot;">
			The file to download into. Will output any received file into it.
		</member>
		<member name="max_redirects" type="int" setter="set_max_redirects" getter="get_max_redirects" default="8">
			Maximum number of allowed redirects.
		</member>
		<member name="timeout" type="int" setter="set_timeout" getter="get_timeout" default="0">
		</member>
		<member name="use_threads" type="bool" setter="set_use_threads" getter="is_using_threads" default="false">
			If [code]true[/code], multithreading is used to improve performance.
		</member>
	</members>
	<signals>
		<signal name="request_completed">
			<argument index="0" name="result" type="int">
			</argument>
			<argument index="1" name="response_code" type="int">
			</argument>
			<argument index="2" name="headers" type="PackedStringArray">
			</argument>
			<argument index="3" name="body" type="PackedByteArray">
			</argument>
			<description>
				Emitted when a request is completed.
			</description>
		</signal>
	</signals>
	<constants>
		<constant name="RESULT_SUCCESS" value="0" enum="Result">
			Request successful.
		</constant>
		<constant name="RESULT_CHUNKED_BODY_SIZE_MISMATCH" value="1" enum="Result">
		</constant>
		<constant name="RESULT_CANT_CONNECT" value="2" enum="Result">
			Request failed while connecting.
		</constant>
		<constant name="RESULT_CANT_RESOLVE" value="3" enum="Result">
			Request failed while resolving.
		</constant>
		<constant name="RESULT_CONNECTION_ERROR" value="4" enum="Result">
			Request failed due to connection (read/write) error.
		</constant>
		<constant name="RESULT_SSL_HANDSHAKE_ERROR" value="5" enum="Result">
			Request failed on SSL handshake.
		</constant>
		<constant name="RESULT_NO_RESPONSE" value="6" enum="Result">
			Request does not have a response (yet).
		</constant>
		<constant name="RESULT_BODY_SIZE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED" value="7" enum="Result">
			Request exceeded its maximum size limit, see [member body_size_limit].
		</constant>
		<constant name="RESULT_BODY_DECOMPRESS_FAILED" value="8" enum="Result">
		</constant>
		<constant name="RESULT_REQUEST_FAILED" value="9" enum="Result">
			Request failed (currently unused).
		</constant>
		<constant name="RESULT_DOWNLOAD_FILE_CANT_OPEN" value="10" enum="Result">
			HTTPRequest couldn't open the download file.
		</constant>
		<constant name="RESULT_DOWNLOAD_FILE_WRITE_ERROR" value="11" enum="Result">
			HTTPRequest couldn't write to the download file.
		</constant>
		<constant name="RESULT_REDIRECT_LIMIT_REACHED" value="12" enum="Result">
			Request reached its maximum redirect limit, see [member max_redirects].
		</constant>
		<constant name="RESULT_TIMEOUT" value="13" enum="Result">
		</constant>
	</constants>
</class>