SWI-Prolog HTTP support library

This directory provides the SWI-Prolog libraries for accessing and providing HTTP services.

Client library

The main client library is library(http/http_open), which can open both HTTP and HTTPS connections and handle all request methods.

Server library

The main server libraries are

For simplicity, you can use library(http/http_server), which combines the typical HTTP libraries that most servers need. The idea of a common request handling system and three controlling libraries is outdated; the threaded server now being the only sensible controlling library.

Requirements

This library uses functionality from the ssl package to support HTTPS, the sgml package to read XML/HTML and the clib package for various extensions.

Prolog files

html_decl.pl  -- HTML emitter analysis and IDE supportShow source
html_head.plShow source
html_current_resource/1True when About is a currently known resource.Source
html_insert_resource/3Actually include HTML head resources.Source
html_requires/3Include ResourceOrList and all dependencies derived from it and add them to the HTML head using html_post/2.Source
html_resource/2Register an HTML head resource.Source
mime_include/4Hook called to include a link to an HTML resource of type Mime into the HTML head.Source
html_quasiquotations.pl  -- HTML quasi quotationsShow source
html_write.plShow source
html/3Generate HTML from Content.Source
html_begin/3For html_begin//1, Env is a term Env(Attributes); for html_end//1 it is the plain environment name.Source
html_current_option/1True if Option is an active option for the HTML generator.Source
html_end/3For html_begin//1, Env is a term Env(Attributes); for html_end//1 it is the plain environment name.Source
html_header_hook/1This multifile hook is called just before the Content-type header is emitted.Source
html_post/4Reposition HTML to the receiving Id.Source
html_quoted/3Quote the value for normal (CDATA) text.Source
html_quoted_attribute/3Quote the value according to the rules for tag-attributes included in double-quotes.Source
html_receive/3Receive posted HTML tokens.Source
html_receive/4This extended version of html_receive//1 causes Handler to be called to process all messages posted to the channel at the time output is generated.Source
html_root_attribute/4Add an attribute to the HTML root element of the page.Source
html_set_options/1Set options for the HTML output.Source
layout/3Define required newlines before and after tags.Source
page/3Generate a page including the HTML <!DOCTYPE> header.Source
page/4Generate a page including the HTML <!DOCTYPE> header.Source
print_html/1Print list of atoms and layout instructions.Source
print_html/2Print list of atoms and layout instructions.Source
reply_html_page/2Provide the complete reply as required by http_wrapper.pl for a page constructed from Head and Body.Source
reply_html_page/3Provide the complete reply as required by http_wrapper.pl for a page constructed from Head and Body.Source
reply_html_partial/1Reply with partial HTML document.Source
xhtml_ns/4Demand an xmlns:id=Value in the outer html tag.Source
http_client.pl  -- HTTP client libraryShow source
http_cors.plShow source
cors_enable/0Emit the HTTP header Access-Control-Allow-Origin using domains from the setting http:cors.Source
cors_enable/2CORS reply to a Preflight OPTIONS request.Source
http_dispatch.plShow source
http_404/2Reply using an "HTTP 404 not found" page.Source
http_current_handler/2True if Location is handled by Closure.Source
http_current_handler/3Resolve the current handler and options to execute it.Source
http_delete_handler/1Delete handler for Spec.Source
http_dispatch/1Dispatch a Request using http_handler/3 registrations.Source
http_handler/3Register Closure as a handler for HTTP requests.Source
http_link_to_id/3HREF is a link on the local server to a handler with given ID, passing the given Parameters.Source
http_location_by_id/2True when Location represents the HTTP path to which the handler with identifier ID is bound.Source
http_redirect/3Redirect to a new location.Source
http_reload_with_parameters/3Create a request on the current handler with replaced search parameters.Source
http_reply_file/3Options is a list of.Source
http_request_expansion/2Register Goal for expanding the HTTP request handler.Source
http_safe_file/2True if FileSpec is considered safe.Source
http_switch_protocol/2Send an "HTTP 101 Switching Protocols" reply.Source
http_dyn_workers.pl  -- Dynamically schedule HTTP workers.Show source
http_exception.plShow source
bad_request_error/2If an exception of the term error(Formal, context(Stack, Context)) is caught and subsumes_term(ContextTemplate, Context) is true, translate the exception into an HTTP 400 exception.
in_or_exclude_backtrace/2Remove the stacktrace from the exception, unless setting http:client_backtrace is true.Source
map_exception_to_http_status/4Map certain exceptions to HTTP status codes.Source
http_header.pl  -- Handling HTTP headersShow source
http_hook.plShow source
convert_parameter/3Hook to execute a step in the HTTP parameter conversion process.
http_connection_over_proxy/6Try to connect to the host Endpoint via Proxy for the purposes of retrieving the resource identified by URLParts.Source
http_host.plShow source
http_current_host/4Source
http_public_host/4Current global host and port of the HTTP server.Source
http_public_host_url/2True when URL is the public URL at which this server can be contacted.Source
http_public_url/2True when URL is an absolute URL for the current request.Source
http_log.pl  -- HTTP Logging moduleShow source
http_multipart_plugin.plShow source
http_convert_data/4Convert multipart/form-data messages for http_read_data/3.Source
http_open.plShow source
disable_encoding_filter/1Do not use the Content-encoding as Transfer-encoding encoding for specific values of ContentType.Source
http_close_keep_alive/1Close all keep-alive connections matching Address.Source
http_open/3Open the data at the HTTP server as a Prolog stream.Source
http_set_authorization/2Set user/password to supply with URLs that have URL as prefix.Source
keep_alive/4Callback when closing the range stream used to process the content of the reply.Source
map_method/2Support additional METHOD keywords.Source
open_hook/6Hook implementation that makes open_any/5 support http and https URLs for Mode == read.Source
http_parameters.pl  -- Extract parameters (GET and POST) from HTTP requestsShow source
http_path.pl  -- Abstract specification of HTTP server locationsShow source
http_redis_plugin.pl  -- Hook session management to use RedisShow source
http_server.pl  -- HTTP server libraryShow source
http_server_files.pl  -- Serve files needed by modules from the serverShow source
http_server_health.pl  -- HTTP Server health statisticsShow source
http_session.plShow source
http_close_session/1Closes an HTTP session.Source
http_current_session/2Enumerate the current sessions and associated data.Source
http_in_session/1True if SessionId is an identifier for the current session.Source
http_open_session/2Establish a new session.Source
http_session_assert/1Versions of assert/1, retract/1 and retractall/1 that associate data with the current HTTP session.Source
http_session_assert/2Versions of assert/1, retract/1 and retractall/1 that associate data with an explicit HTTP session.Source
http_session_asserta/1Versions of assert/1, retract/1 and retractall/1 that associate data with the current HTTP session.Source
http_session_asserta/2Versions of assert/1, retract/1 and retractall/1 that associate data with an explicit HTTP session.Source
http_session_cookie/1Generate a random cookie that can be used by a browser to identify the current session.Source
http_session_data/1True if Data is associated using http_session_assert/1 to the current HTTP session.Source
http_session_data/2Versions of assert/1, retract/1 and retractall/1 that associate data with an explicit HTTP session.Source
http_session_id/1True if SessionId is an identifier for the current session.Source
http_session_option/1True if Option is a current option of the session system.Source
http_session_retract/1Versions of assert/1, retract/1 and retractall/1 that associate data with the current HTTP session.Source
http_session_retract/2Versions of assert/1, retract/1 and retractall/1 that associate data with an explicit HTTP session.Source
http_session_retractall/1Versions of assert/1, retract/1 and retractall/1 that associate data with the current HTTP session.Source
http_session_retractall/2Versions of assert/1, retract/1 and retractall/1 that associate data with an explicit HTTP session.Source
http_set_session/1Overrule a setting for the current or specified session.Source
http_set_session/2Overrule a setting for the current or specified session.Source
http_set_session_options/1Set options for the session library.Source
session_setting/2Find setting for SessionID.Source
http_stream.plShow source
current_transfer_encoding/1True if Encoding is supported.Source
encoding_filter/3Install a filter to deal with chunked encoded messages.Source
cgi_discard/1Discard content produced so far.Source
cgi_open/4Process CGI output.Source
cgi_property/2Inquire the status of the CGI stream.Source
cgi_set/2Change one of the properties.Source
cgi_statistics/1Return statistics on the CGI stream subsystem.Source
http_chunked_add_trailer/3Add a trailer key/value to DataStream.Source
http_chunked_flush/2Emits the next chunk flush_output/1 on DataStream, but in addition adds extension parameters to the chunk.Source
http_chunked_open/3Create a stream to realise HTTP chunked encoding or decoding.Source
http_is_chunked/1True if DataStream is created using http_chunked_open/3.Source
is_cgi_stream/1True if Stream is a CGI stream created using cgi_open/4.Source
multipart_open/3DataStream is a stream that signals end_of_file if the multipart boundary is encountered.Source
multipart_open_next/1Prepare DataStream to read the next part from the multipart input data.Source
stream_range_open/3DataStream is a stream whose size is defined by the option size(ContentLength).Source
http_unix_daemon.pl  -- Run SWI-Prolog HTTP server as a Unix system daemonShow source
http_wrapper.pl  -- Server processing of an HTTP requestShow source
hub.plShow source
current_hub/2True when there exists a hub Hub with Name.Source
hub_add/3Add a WebSocket to the hub.Source
hub_broadcast/2Send Message to all websockets associated with Hub for which call(Condition, Id) succeeds.Source
hub_broadcast/3Send Message to all websockets associated with Hub for which call(Condition, Id) succeeds.Source
hub_create/3Create a new hub.Source
hub_member/2True when Id is a member of the hub HubName.Source
hub_send/2Send message to the indicated ClientId.Source
js_write.pl  -- Utilities for including JavaScriptShow source
mimepack.pl  -- Create a MIME messageShow source
mimetype.plShow source
charset/3Hook that determines the Charset for File that has media type MediaType.
mime_extension/2Hook that is called by file_mime_type/2 before the default table is examined.
file_content_type/2True if File should be served using ContentType: ContentType.Source
file_content_type/3True if File should be served using ContentType: ContentType.Source
file_mime_type/2True when MimeType is the mime-type to be used for sending FileName.Source
term_html.pl  -- Represent Prolog terms as HTMLShow source
thread_httpd.plShow source
schedule_workers/1Hook called if a new connection or a keep-alive connection cannot be scheduled immediately to a worker.Source
http_add_worker/2Add a new worker to the HTTP server for port Port.Source
http_close_connection/1Close connection associated to Request.Source
http_current_server/2True if Goal is the goal of a server at Port.Source
http_current_worker/2True if ThreadID is the identifier of a Prolog thread serving Port.Source
http_enough_workers/3Check that we have enough workers in our queue.Source
http_requeue/1Re-queue a connection to the worker pool.Source
http_server/2Create a server at Port that calls Goal for each parsed request.Source
http_server_property/2True if Property is a property of the HTTP server running at Port.Source
http_spawn/2Continue this connection on a new thread.Source
http_stop_server/2Stop the indicated HTTP server gracefully.Source
http_workers/2Query or set the number of workers for the server at this port.Source
message_level/2Determine the message stream used for exceptions that may occur during server_loop/5.Source
websocket.pl  -- WebSocket supportShow source