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This [[Module Library|XQuery Module]] contains a single function to send HTTP requests and handle HTTP responses. The function {{Code|send-request}} is based on the [http://expath.org/spec/http-client EXPath HTTP Client Module]. It gives full control over the available request and response parameters. For simple GET requests, the [[Fetch Module]] may be sufficient.
With {{Version|9.0}}, if <code><http:header name="Accept-Encoding" value="gzip"/></code> is specified and if the addressed web server provides support for the {{Code|gzip}} compression algorithm, the response will automatically be decompressed.
=Conventions=
==Google Homepage==
Retrieve the Google search home pagewith a timeout of 10 seconds. In order to [[http://home.ccil.org/~cowan/XML/tagsoup/ Parsers#HTML_Parser|parse HTML]], TagSoup] must be contained in the class path in order to parse html.
'''Query:'''
<pre class="brush:xquery">http:send-request(<http:request method='get' href='http://www.google.com' timeout='10'/>)</pre>
'''Result:'''
<pre class="brush:xml">
=Changelog=
;Version 9.0
* Updated: support for gzipped content encoding
;Version 8.0
