luci/modules/luci-base/luasrc/http.luadoc

---[[
LuCI Web Framework high-level HTTP functions.

module "luci.http"
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---[[
Close the HTTP-Connection.


@class function
@name close
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---[[
Return the request content if the request was of unknown type.

@class function
@name content
@return	HTTP request body
@return	HTTP request body length
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---[[
Get a certain HTTP input value or a table of all input values.

@class function
@name formvalue
@param name		Name of the GET or POST variable to fetch
@param noparse	Don't parse POST data before getting the value
@return			HTTP input value or table of all input value
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Get a table of all HTTP input values with a certain prefix.

@class function
@name formvaluetable
@param prefix	Prefix
@return			Table of all HTTP input values with given prefix
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---[[
Get the value of a certain HTTP-Cookie.

@class function
@name getcookie
@param name		Cookie Name
@return			String containing cookie data
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---[[
Get the value of a certain HTTP environment variable

or the environment table itself.
@class function
@name getenv
@param name		Environment variable
@return			HTTP environment value or environment table
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---[[
Set a handler function for incoming user file uploads.

@class function
@name setfilehandler
@param callback	Handler function
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---[[
Send a HTTP-Header.

@class function
@name header
@param key	Header key
@param value Header value
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Set the mime type of following content data.

@class function
@name prepare_content
@param mime	Mimetype of following content
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---[[
Get the RAW HTTP input source

@class function
@name source
@return	HTTP LTN12 source
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---[[
Set the HTTP status code and status message.

@class function
@name status
@param code		Status code
@param message	Status message
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---[[
Send a chunk of content data to the client.

This function is as a valid LTN12 sink.
If the content chunk is nil this function will automatically invoke close.
@class function
@name write
@param content	Content chunk
@param src_err	Error object from source (optional)
@see close
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Splice data from a filedescriptor to the client.

@class function
@name splice
@param fp	File descriptor
@param size	Bytes to splice (optional)
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---[[
Redirects the client to a new URL and closes the connection.

@class function
@name redirect
@param url	Target URL
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---[[
Create a querystring out of a table of key - value pairs.

@class function
@name build_querystring
@param table		Query string source table
@return			Encoded HTTP query string
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---[[
Return the URL-decoded equivalent of a string.

@param str		URL-encoded string
@param no_plus	Don't decode + to " "
@return			URL-decoded string
@see urlencode
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---[[
Return the URL-encoded equivalent of a string.

@param str		Source string
@return			URL-encoded string
@see urldecode
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---[[
Send the given data as JSON encoded string.

@class function
@name write_json
@param data		Data to send
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