Feature request: blocks to send HTTP requests

[jeffreyrb03-gmail]

I emailed the CreatiCode about this suggestion back when there was a bug that didn’t let me make a forum account, but I’ll also put it here along with some code to make it easier.

Blocks that allow you to send HTTP requests would be a really cool, useful, and important feature. HTTP requests are the main way to communicate between a client and a server, for example, browsers send GET HTTP requests to websites in order to display websites to you.
I want HTTP request blocks to be added because I have a project that needs to communicate with my website and its database in order to make accounts and login and do stuff like that.
While there does exist a block (get website as markdown(https://google.com)) that basically sends a GET request to a website and converts the returned HTML to markdown, it isn’t useful for most logical cases, and can’t send information to a website, only can get a website.

So HTTP requests work like this: you have to send one to a URL, and it is either a POST or GET (there are others that exist but aren’t common used), and you send other stuff too like response body and response headers.
https://reqbin.com allows you to send HTTP requests of all kinds, so when making the block, it should basically allow you to do everything that site does.
I have made a mockup of what the block could look like (its in the Cloud section):

This would allow you to do what the website would do, here is basically the equivalent:

[info-creaticode]

@jeffreyrb03-gmail

Thanks for the write-up. This feature is currently queued since it involves both front-end and back-end, and most of our users (k-12 students) may not use this feature.

[jeffreyrb03-gmail]

@info-creaticode Got it, thx!

[Tyller_]

@jeffreyrb03-gmail I have found out how to send post requests but haven’t found how to retrieve but you could, though it is definetly a security issue because it’s running html tags (except the script tag and javascirpt in a hyperlink href don’t work, but setting all styles to initial does work and nuke the page into text)

If you open a chat window in widgets and add a message containing html tags, they will format, so using

  <input type="text" name="data" value="Hello, Server!">
  <button type="submit">Send Request</button>
</form>
<iframe name="responseFrame" style="display: none;"></iframe>

Works, except you’ll have to do some magic to make that show to a variable, though it’s very much a security issue still

[jeffreyrb03-gmail]

@tyller_ cool