Zig Http Client Learning

Did some programming tonight, just learning more Zig and playing around with the std.http.Client

It may be that I’m still learning my way around but I do find the documentation to still be a little on the sparse side. Maybe I’m just spoiled by requests because I do also remember the bad old days of Python and using urllib and urllib2 directly and those were pretty awful APIs too.

pub fn main() !void {
    var gpa = std.heap.GeneralPurposeAllocator(.{}){};
    defer _ = gpa.deinit();
    const allocator = gpa.allocator();

    var client = std.http.Client{ .allocator = allocator };
    defer client.deinit();

    var header_buffer: [1024]u8 = undefined;

    const uri = try std.Uri.parse("https://ifconfig.me/ip");
    var req = try client.open(std.http.Method.GET, uri, .{ .server_header_buffer = &header_buffer });
    defer req.deinit();
    try req.send();
    try req.finish();
    try req.wait();

    std.debug.print("Status={}\n", .{req.response.status});
    std.debug.print("Size={}\n", .{req.response.content_length.?});

    const resp_body = try allocator.alloc(u8, req.response.content_length.?);
    defer allocator.free(resp_body);

    _ = try req.readAll(resp_body);
    std.debug.print("Respone Body={s}\n", .{resp_body});
}

const std = @import("std");

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