SoboRequest is a simple library created in order to facilitate making of HTTPS requests in C. It makes an extensive use of libcurl; while libcurl is one of the most amazing libraries ever created, which I truly and seriously admire, it is also quite complex to use because of multitude of options to be set and paths to be taken. Therefore, my goal was to create something SIMPLE, allowing to make requests easily and quickly.
© Copyright by Krzysztof Sobolewski 2020-2021. SoboRequest is Open Source software, licensed under the MIT license available here: https://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
You can contact the author using the email: krzysztof.sobolewski@gmail.com I'm looking for cooperation in the further development of this software.
You may install SoboRequest either with tests or without them.
make or make all
In the root directory of the project.
The binaries will be built into ./bin.
The binaries are:
soborequest.o
make alltest
In the same directory will do the same + build tests.
The binaries will be built into ./bin.
The binaries are:
soborequest.o
test_request
After make, make all or make alltest has been done, call:
make install
in the root directory of the project.
WARNING: requires the sudo access.
The library (soborequest.a) and the header file will be put in the target common directories, defined into the makefile in the variables:
SOBOREQUEST_INCLUDE_PATH ?= '/usr/local/share/soborequest'
SOBOREQUEST_LIB_PATH ?= '/usr/local/lib/soborequest'
You may change those paths to conform with your system configuration.
Also, you need the server-side application in order to test SoboRequest.
For test_request, there is a server-side counterpart named api.py. It's
located in the python directory in our project tree.
It's a simple application written in Python 3.9 using Flask and Flask-Restful:
https://flask-restful.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Its installation is also very simple - having Python 3.x (preferably 3.9) installed, please
select a directory where you would like to put the environment settings for Python + Flask.
From this directory, please call:
python -m venv api_fl
Then:
source api_fl/bin/activate
Bang! You're into the api_fl environment. The last thing to do is to call the following from the python directory:
pip install -r requirements.txt
From now, you can start the python application api.py in the activated Python environment.
Go to the "python" directory in our project and type:
python api.py
It will start the application server on the port 5000.
From now, you can make requests to this server, ie:
http://127.0.0.1:5000
TODO. Will be written ASAP. For now, please just take a look at the code starting with src/test/test_request.c
ArchLinux 5.10.7-arch1-1
MacOS Catalina 10.15.6
- PUT method - it's a bit tricky but I've found out how to handle it
- authentication
- uploading/downloading of files
- handling forms in some easy way