WEB development with Emacs: HTTP GET and POST

WEB development with Emacs: HTTP GET and POST

[Anton V. Belyaev]

Hello all,

I am looking for a way to make HTTP requests from Emacs and see the
response.

I've been doing WEB development for a while and found myself switching
constantly from Emacs to Firefox and back: write a piece of web
handler in Emacs - check with Firefox how it works.

This is quite reasonable when HTTP response is an HTML page.

But now I mostly work with JSON and XML - just text formats and
Firefox shows them as is. Emacs could do the same.

I guess there are many WEB developers among Emacs users. And someone
might have solved the problem already. What is the best recipe to do
this?

Thanks,
Anton.

Re: WEB development with Emacs: HTTP GET and POST

[weber]

On Jun 20, 4:28 pm, "Anton V. Belyaev" <anton.bely...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am looking for a way to make HTTP requests from Emacs and see the
> response.
>
> I've been doing WEB development for a while and found myself switching
> constantly from Emacs to Firefox and back: write a piece of web
> handler in Emacs - check with Firefox how it works.
>
> This is quite reasonable when HTTP response is an HTML page.
>
> But now I mostly work with JSON and XML - just text formats and
> Firefox shows them as is. Emacs could do the same.
>
> I guess there are many WEB developers among Emacs users. And someone
> might have solved the problem already. What is the best recipe to do
> this?
>
> Thanks,
> Anton.

Perhaps this can help you (http-twiddle.el):

http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.emacs.sources/browse_thread/thread/51d4aac3f0ac2ba9/d31c566141c09927?lnk=st&q=http-twiddle.el#d31c566141c09927

Cheers,
weber

Re: WEB development with Emacs: HTTP GET and POST

[Jason Rumney]

On Jun 20, 8:28 pm, "Anton V. Belyaev" <anton.bely...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am looking for a way to make HTTP requests from Emacs and see the
> response.

Try M-x browse-url-emacs.

If you want to browse urls that are in the buffer you are editing,
then you might want to customize ffap-url-fetcher to this instead of
the default browse-url, and use ffap to open the url.

Re: WEB development with Emacs: HTTP GET and POST

[Xah]

Not sure exactly what is your question. Here's few tips:

• define system wide shortcuts that switch to specific apps. e.g. for
me, F6 is FireFox, F7 is emacs.

• Most PC keyboards has a Menu key. (usually on the right hand side,
between Alt and Ctrl.) This key can be set to switch to the last App.
Since most app switching is to the previous apps, this key is useful
that way.

• In emacs, you can set a shortcut to view the current file in
browser. For me, that is currently set to F8.
e.g.
...html-mode-hook...
 (define-key html-mode-map (kbd "<f8>") 'browse-url-of-buffer)

• If you want a elisp lib to do HTTP query, there's http-cookies.el,
http-get.el, http-post.el
at
   http://savannah.nongnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/http-emacs/http-emacs/

These are used by LiveJournal mode that allows me to post blogs to lj
within emacs, which works well for me. I believe there are other http
protocol elisp code...

There are emacs mode to post to blogger, Wikipedia... not sure what
they use. You can check emacs wiki.

• Alternatively, you can trivially write a elisp wrapper that calls
shell's lynx curl, wget, or perl's GET, etc that returns its output
and display it in a buffer. If you need the code, give us a hollar. Or
check out my elisp tutorial on my site.

  Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/

☄




On Jun 20, 12:28 pm, "Anton V. Belyaev" <anton.bely...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am looking for a way to make HTTP requests from Emacs and see the
> response.
>
> I've been doing WEB development for a while and found myself switching
> constantly from Emacs to Firefox and back: write a piece of web
> handler in Emacs - check with Firefox how it works.
>
> This is quite reasonable when HTTP response is an HTML page.
>
> But now I mostly work with JSON and XML - just text formats and
> Firefox shows them as is. Emacs could do the same.
>
> I guess there are many WEB developers among Emacs users. And someone
> might have solved the problem already. What is the best recipe to do
> this?
>
> Thanks,
> Anton.

Re: WEB development with Emacs: HTTP GET and POST

[Bastien]

"Anton V. Belyaev" <anton.belyaev@gmail.com> writes:

> I am looking for a way to make HTTP requests from Emacs and see the
> response.

Look for http-get.el and http-post.el -- it should be on the Emacswiki.

-- 
Bastien