Do you want just to proxy the request to the external host? Or, connect to the external host, send request, grab the reply, process it, and send back processed data to the client?
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Charlie Scott-Skinner < [email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > I am attempting to write my first server, and I've found many things to > facilitate that, but Mongoose is by far the most attractive :) > > However, I am really struggling to find any information or examples out > there beyond the 6 on here http://cesanta.com/docs/Embed.shtml (where the > 'upload.c' link is goes to 'post.c' BTW). > > Does anyone have an example of how to call out to an external REST API? > > I'm not interested in serving my own - I think I understand how to do that. > But I need to be able to call out to others... > > I have created a connection to the API, but I don't seem to be able to do > anything beyond that. > I've intercepted the connect event, but I can't modify anything within the > connection structure... > > I was trying this... > > case MG_WS_CONNECT: > { > connection->uri = > "/gapi/translate?from=eng&dest=fra&format=xml&phrase=cat&pretty=true"; > connection->request_method = "GET"; > > result = MG_TRUE; > } > break; > > ...but connection->uri and request_method still show NULL after > this because they are const char * I guess. > > Am I supposed to create yet another connection at this point with the full > API request URL? > But then how do I set the request type? > > Or am I chasing ghosts...? > Is Mongoose only good for serving REST APIs, but cannot call out to them? > > > > Kind regards, > Charlie > > > P.S: any links to any other resources, manuals, help or examples would be > hugely appreciated and Google is not as fruitful as I'd hope :| > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "mongoose-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mongoose-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mongoose-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mongoose-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
