HTTP POST Requests

Binary_Coder · 2023-11-13T18:34:20+01:00

So I have two questions: How do you make a POST request in JavaScript? I have the API I want to use, and I'm somewhat familiar with GET requests, but I'm not...

Binary_Coder

So I have two questions:

How do you make a POST request in JavaScript? I have the API I want to use, and I'm somewhat familiar with GET requests, but I'm not sure how to structure the whole thing.
Is it possible to make a POST request in App Lab using startWebRequest()? If not what other programs would be good for this?

Ravage

Binary_Coder 1. In normal JS, you can use:
fetch("url",{method:"POST"/*or get*/, headers: headers, body: JSON.stringify(body)})
This is, of course, a simplification; there are other parameters you could use, you probably knew that already. In any case, read this for a more detailed explanation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API/Using_Fetch.

Part 2 is way trickier. startWebRequest() only works, as you know, for a select few websites, so you have to be creative, and use external servers to perform the requests themselves (at least, as far as I know). You can use Replit for this, along with cdo-firebase-storage, but this is where the domain of my CDO knowledge ends (when I was on CDO, I refused to dabble with this), so it would be better to ask @Letti42 or @Varrience . They're the masters of this art.

Binary_Coder

Ravage OK, that makes sense. But now I'm curious, if I were to use an API that is allowed by CDO would startWebRequest() work for POST requests? Or can it only do GET requests?

Varrience

Ravage I wouldn't consider myself a total master.... although the amount of stuff i had to go through to fix it was absolute hell https://studio.code.org/projects/gamelab/fMFcCGkaN9uyBLkF8nZ5lmb2arPxWnAFMrq2c0asGWg/view not sure if CDO considers this against TOS though but meh whatevs they banned too many peeps of which had good projects so I'm all for it if you wanna make something cool on here with this @Binary_Coder and maybe pin this as the best answer to for others

Ravage

Binary_Coder Ah, though I have always stayed away from AppLab (for good reason!), I'm pretty sure it only does the GET. Sorry. Also, I'm pretty sure you can't specify any body in the function...

Binary_Coder

Ravage That's fine, it's just me trying to make my life more complicated (as usual). I'll look into using Replit or some other platform.

Varrience

Binary_Coder aaaand it's not really more complicated if someone already perhaps made the module you were looking for you can even fork my backend if you wish to make any personal changes or additions to it

Binary_Coder

Varrience Of course you know how to get around it... why am I not surprised? This is perfect, I'll definitely play around with it when I get a chance.

Ravage

Varrience You "wouldn't consider [your]self a total master"??? You're one of the five people I've ever seen use this method: Ethan, Letti, DragonFireGames, AbicamStudios, and you. You were the one to perfect Ethan's original methods along with AbicamStudios, so we will consider you the master of this admittedly dark art, thank you very much.

EDIT: props to solidarity, but I think this will definitely get you banned.

Binary_Coder

Varrience If I’m reading your code correctly this uses Replit for hosting. Does that mean it will stop working in 2024?

Varrience

Ravage too bad i have backups but oh well, and i guess so... and it's not too dark if you want to make cool web applications doesn't make sense to not outright have it

DragonFireGames

Ravage I stole the technique (and some of the code) from @Varrience who introduced me to it.

Ravage

Varrience CDO could potentially use IP banning, though I really doubt it.

And "dark" inasmuch as it really was not meant to exist in any way whatsoever on CDO. When I was using CDO, I could have used that method, but I instead opted to push the limits of CDO, not break past them, for example with things like Fibre (of which, alas! I lost the project link and thus cannot give you the source code), which was a client-server networking library built only upon keyValues and not exterior servers.

Also, I noticed something pretty funny. We have cdo-firebase-storage, so why hasn't anyone like you or @Letti42 ever tried to make a rapid client-server thing based solely on that? Client sets a keyValue, server reads it, sets another response keyValue, and you have a good scheme. Maybe try it?

Varrience

Ravage abooby changed his http backend to do it.... though the library extension supports up to 1 connection at a time supposedly i think ethan may have found a way to bypass it as such though i think it'd require much more work having to build an extention like that since i did take a look at some of the databrowser source though it shouldn't be entierly impossible.... for me i'm just happy enough to have the fetch library for now not to say it isn't impossible in fact i probs could build an API table for modifying any values within the project via fetch requests but meh

Letti42

Ravage i talked about it with robot engine about it once and it is possible but a bit difficult to pull off, and like varrience said its hard to get more than one connection running by a single server. Only really good for post requests tbh

Ravage

Varrience Letti42 keyValues are websockets, right?.... case closed.

Oh, and you'll never be able to beat the speed of using just keyValues, no exterior JS. Please note that I said that you guys should try doing it, but nothing about actually using it. When I was making my client-server multiplayer game (lost to the first of my two account bans, right in the middle of development), it again used Fibre, and again, I never dabbled with this stuff. It would be absurdly impractical to use exterior servers for rapid things, unless we get a worldwide industrial revolution and we find a way to make communication between servers insanely fast. Quantum teleportation, anyone?

Letti42

Ravage keyValues are websockets, right?

Yes, but to establish a connection to that websocket you need to connect to the firebase server which is kept track of, and makes sure you dont have too many connections on at the same time

Ravage

Letti42 If one IP can't have too many connections at the same time... IP spoofing!

Also, how do you do the reply thing where you reply to a specific piece of text?

person

Crime 👍

Varrience

Binary_Coder yep, I'll probably have to update it again as I'll probably be moving to code sandbox, or the other one in which i forgot i deployed.... or if you plan on hosting it yourself all you need are the files from the API I made I'll be leaving it up a little longer for those who wish to get copies and run there own deployments

DragonFireGames

Varrience Unfortunately, it is what we must do.