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HTTP Get
Retrieves the data or downloads a file using the HTTP protocol with the request method GET from the specified URL.
Parameters
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URL Specifies the URL to be received data.
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Parameters Specifies data items to be posted. A data item should be a name/value pair.
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Populate variable with status code Specifies a variable that populates with the status code received from the web after posting the data to the data.
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Store received data into Specifies a variable to hold the received data.
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Result data type Specifies the data type of received, it can be the binary format or text format.
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Store received data into local file Specifies a file to save the received data from the web.
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If file exists Specifies how to store the data if the local file does exist. It can be one of the following:
- Don't save
- Overwrite existing file
- Save with a unique file name (A number will be appended to the file name)
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Authentication information Specifies the user name and password if authentication is required for accessing the URL.
- Store response header into Specifies a variable to hold the response header from the web site.
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Encoded data Specifies how to encode the post data, it can be "Default" or "Multi-part form data". If you want upload files,
you must use the option "Multi-part form data". For more information, you please refer to the HTTP protocol.
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Cookies set/from variable Specifies the cookies data source and the target. The cookies data in a variable can be sent to the server. The variable
will also store the cookies data from the server. HTTP cookies is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored in a user's web browser while the user is browsing
that website.
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User agent User-Agent header, which specifies information about the client agent.
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Extra headers Specifies the custom HTTP headers to be added when sending the request the URL.
- Do not automatically handle cookies Specifies whether to set cookies automatically. This option may affect the website behavior, you would tick it off if the site returns a wrong result and try again.
Note:
- For more information about the proxy options, please refer to "Proxy".
- For more information about the timeout options, please refer to "Timeout".
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