Building HTTP client and server functionality
The HTTP package is the workhorse of JuliaWeb and encompasses functionality from many previous packages. It contains a web server, an HTTP client, and also various utilities that make web development easier, such as the Server, Router, HandlerFunction, Request, and Response modules. You can find HTTP’s full documentation at https://juliaweb.github.io/HTTP.jl/stable/. As always, get the package by typing add HTTP into the REPL’s package mode.
Using HTTP as a web client
An HTTP client sends an HTTP Request and returns an HTTP Response. Both are subtypes of HTTP.Message: HTTP.Request is an alias of HTTP.Message.Request. Here is an example of a fully populated Request object (see Chapter2\http_client_server\request_response.jl):
req = HTTP.Request( "GET", # 1 - Could be GET, POST, UPDATE and so on "http://localhost:8081/search", ...
