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esphttpclient

This is a short library for ESP8266(EX) chips to make HTTP requests.

Features

• Easy to use.
• Supports multiple requests in parallel.
• Supports GET and POST requests.
• Tested with Espressif SDK v1.0.0

Building

If you don't have a toolchain yet, install one with https://github.com/pfalcon/esp-open-sdk then get Espressif's SDK.

The submodule way

If your project looks like esphttpd from Sprite_tm:

git clone http://git.spritesserver.nl/esphttpd.git/
cd esphttpd
git submodule add https://github.com/Caerbannog/esphttpclient.git lib/esphttpclient
git submodule update --init

Now append lib/esphttpclient to the following Makefile line and you should be ready:

MODULES = driver user lib/esphttpclient

In case you want to use SSL don't forget to add ssl to LIBS in the Makefile

LIBS = c gcc hal pp phy net80211 lwip wpa main ssl

The dirty way

Alternatively you could create a simple project:

git clone https://github.com/esp8266/source-code-examples.git
cd source-code-examples/basic_example
# Set your Wifi credentials in user_config.h
# I could not test this because of the UART baud rate (74880)

Then download this library and move the files to user/:

git clone https://github.com/Caerbannog/esphttpclient.git
mv esphttpclient/*.* user/

Usage

Include httpclient.h from user_main.c then call one of these functions:

void http_get(const char * url, const char * headers, http_callback user_callback);
void http_post(const char * url, const char * post_data, const char * headers, http_callback user_callback);

void http_callback_example(char * response_body, int http_status, char * response_headers, int body_size)
{
	os_printf("http_status=%d\n", http_status);
	if (http_status != HTTP_STATUS_GENERIC_ERROR) {
		os_printf("strlen(headers)=%d\n", strlen(response_headers));
		os_printf("body_size=%d\n", body_size);
		os_printf("body=%s<EOF>\n", response_body);
	}
}

Example

The following code performs a single request, then calls http_callback_example to display your public IP address.

http_get("http://wtfismyip.com/text", "", http_callback_example);

The output looks like this:

http_status=200
strlen(full_response)=244
body_size=15
body=208.97.177.124
<EOF>