Http.Read

Name	Mandatory	Description	Default	Type
⬅️ Input		The input of this shard is ignored.		None
Output ➡️		The output is a table containing the HTTP request method, headers, target, and body.		{method: String headers: {String} target: String body: String}

This shard reads incoming HTTP requests from a client connection, parses its components, and outputs them as a table. This shard should be used in conjunction with the Http.Server shard to handle incoming requests. It properly handles both regular and chunked transfer encoding.

Details

The output of this shard is a table with the following format:

{
"method": "POST",
"headers": {
  "Content-Type": "application/json",
  "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36",
  "Authorization": "Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9...",
  "Accept": "application/json",
  "Content-Length": "62"
},
"target": "/api/users",
  "body": "{\"username\":\"johndoe\",\"email\":\"john@example.com\",\"age\":30}"
}

Each key in the table represent a different aspect of the request. "method" (string): - This represents the HTTP method used in the request. - Examples: "GET", "POST", "PUT", "DELETE", "HEAD" - It indicates the desired action to be performed on the resource. "headers" (string table): - This is a collection of HTTP headers sent with the request. - Each key-value pair in this table represents a header name and its value. - Examples might include: - "Content-Type": "application/json" - "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 ..." - "Authorization": "Bearer token123" "target" (string): - This is the request target, which is typically the path part of the URL. - For example, in "http://example.com/api/users", the target would be "/api/users". - It identifies the resource on the server that the request is directed to. "body" (string): - This contains the payload of the request, if any. - For DELETE requests, this is typically empty. - For POST or PUT requests, this might contain data being sent to the server, like form data or JSON.

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