inets httpc: client example in User's Guide not working

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inets httpc: client example in User's Guide not working

720 Views Asked by 7stud At 25 February 2018 at 12:48

I copied the following code from the inets User's Guide:

$ erl
Erlang/OTP 19 [erts-8.2] [source] [64-bit] [smp:4:4] [async-threads:10] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false]

Eshell V8.2  (abort with ^G)

1> inets:start().
ok

2> httpc:set_options([{proxy, {{"www-proxy.mycompany.com", 8000}, ["localhost"]}}]).
ok

3> {ok, {{Version, 200, ReasonPhrase}, Headers, Body}} = httpc:request("http://www.erlang.org").
* exception error: no match of right hand side value 
                {error,
                    {failed_connect,
                        [{to_address,{"www-proxy.mycompany.com",8000}},
                         {inet,[inet],etimedout}]}}

I need advice on how to get that request to complete successfully.

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**7stud** · Accepted Answer · 2018-02-25T13:55:14.787000

This seems to work:

$ erl
Erlang/OTP 19 [erts-8.2] [source] [64-bit] [smp:4:4] [async-threads:10] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false]

Eshell V8.2  (abort with ^G)

1> inets:start().
ok

2> {ok, {{Version, 200, ReasonPhrase}, Headers, Body}} = httpc:request("http://www.erlang.org").
{ok,{{"HTTP/1.1",200,"OK"},
     [{"connection","keep-alive"},
      {"date","Sun, 25 Feb 2018 13:44:59 GMT"},
      {"server","nginx"},
      {"vary","Accept-Encoding"},
      {"content-length","12816"},
      {"content-type","text/html; charset=UTF-8"}],
     "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n  <head>\n    <title>Erlang Programming Language</title>\n    <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html;charset=utf-8\"/>\n    <meta name=\"description\" content=\"Erlang Programming Language\"/>\n    <meta name=\"keywords\" content=\"erlang, functional, programming, fault-tolerant, distributed, multi-platform, portable, software, multi-core, smp, concurrency\"/>\n

The User's Guide says:

The following calls use the default client profile. Use the proxy "www-proxy.mycompany.com:8000", except from requests to localhost. This applies to all the following requests.

which makes as much sense to me as:

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To stop the client, do I just do:

  inets:stop()

?

Edit: I must have figured out how to stop the server because I did it in this code:

Erlang read post request

inets httpc: client example in User's Guide not working

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