The http Package
The standard Tcl library includes an http package that is based on the code I wrote for this chapter. This section documents the package, which has a slightly different interface. The library version uses namespaces and combines the Http_Get, Http_Head, and Http_Post procedures into a single http::geturl procedure. The examples in this chapter are still interesting, but you should look at http.tcl in the Tcl library, which I also wrote. Definitely use the standard http package for your production code.
http::config
The http::config command is used to set the proxy information, time-outs, and the User-Agent and Accept headers that are generated in the HTTP request. You can specify the proxy host and port, or you can specify a ...
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