A RESTful browser for eXist Java-Based Function Modules


http://exist-db.org/xquery/httpclient
A module for performing HTTP requests as a client

httpclient:put($url as xs:anyURI, $content as node(), $persist as xs:boolean, $request-headers as element()?) item()
Performs a HTTP PUT request.. This method returns the HTTP response encoded as an XML fragment, that looks as follows: <httpclient:response xmlns:httpclient="http://exist-db.org/xquery/httpclient" statusCode="200"><httpclient:headers><httpclient:header name="name" value="value"/>...</httpclient:headers><httpclient:body type="xml|xhtml|text|binary" mimetype="returned content mimetype">body content</httpclient:body></httpclient:response> where XML body content will be returned as a Node, HTML body content will be tidied into an XML compatible form, a body with mime-type of "text/..." will be returned as a URLEncoded string, and any other body content will be returned as xs:base64Binary encoded data.
$urlThe URL to process
$contentThe XML PUT payload/content. If it is an XML Node it will be serialized, any other type will be atomized into a string.
$persistThe to indicate if the cookies persist for the query lifetime
$request-headersAny HTTP Request Headers to set in the form <headers><header name="" value=""/></headers>

Returns the XML body content
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