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Hello everyone,

Let's say your ESP8266 acquires data from a sensor. You want to periodically send it on a remote webserver for logging, on a shared host for instance.
The easiest solution is to POST data on HTTP (like a form on a web page would).

Here is a simple library that will do the HTTP requests for you:
https://github.com/Caerbannog/esphttpclient

• Easy to use.
• Supports multiple requests in parallel.
• Supports GET and POST requests.
• Tested with Espressif SDK v1.0.0

Installing
If your project looks like esphttpd from Sprite_tm:

Now append lib/esphttpclient to the following Makefile line and you should be ready:

Example GET
Include httpclient.h from user_main.c then add this line to perform a single request and display your public IP address.

The output looks like this. It is a success because the 200 code means OK. You can now write your own function to replace http_callback_example.

Example POST
To send sensor data use http_post as follows. If you are not interested in the response you can pass NULL for the callback function.


Pull requests are welcome.

Oooh, that looks fancy. I've written my own variant of this but never made it public standaline. I'll now probably take this and use it. I owe you a beer

Just a heads up: two kind souls added support for HTTPS and custom request headers.

https://github.com/Caerbannog/esphttpclient

Having issues with the "user_callback_example" in http_get("http://wtfismyip.com/text","",http_callback user_callback);
getting undefined reference
any Ideas?
have cloned your project and made the changes you name and everything...