You need to use libsoup. Here is some sample code, since I'm currently trying to do it myself and boy I wish I had it as well. The code is for synchronous interaction. That's why there is no main loop. The only difference is that you need to use soup_session_queue_message with a callback. Anyways, good luck!
const Glib = imports.gi.GLib; const Gio = imports.gi.Gio; const Mainloop = imports.mainloop; const Gettext = imports.gettext; const Soup = imports.gi.Soup; function main () { let url="http://httpbin.org/ip"; let _httpSession = new Soup.Session(); _httpSession.set_property('ssl-strict', false); // use if you are doing a https:// Soup.Session.prototype.add_feature.call (_httpSession, new Soup.ProxyResolverDefault()); _httpSession.connect("authenticate", _httpAuth); send (_httpSession,url); }; function send (_lhttpSession,lurl) { let cancellable = new Gio.Cancellable (); let results = 0; let msg = Soup.Message.new ("GET",lurl); results = _lhttpSession.send_message(msg,cancellable); let content = msg.response_body.data; print (content); }; // this part is wrong, and I'm not sure why, I get some warnings. You can probably ignore if you're not // using authentication. function _httpAuth(authObj,myusername,mypassword) { print ("I am here"); let myusername="user"; let mypassword="password"; }; main(); On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 6:56 AM, Megh Parikh <meg...@gmail.com> wrote: > How to interact with http in an extension or issue system commands > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > gnome-shell-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list > _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list