CURLHandle-class {RCurl} | R Documentation

## Class "CURLHandle" for synchronous HTTP requests

### Description

This is the basic class used for performing HTTP requests in the RCurl package. In R, this is a reference to a C-level data structure so we treat it as an opaque data type. However, essentially we can think of this as an with a set of options that persists across calls, i.e. HTTP requests. The numerous options that one can set can be see via `getCurlOptionsConstants`. The object can keep a connection to a Web server open for a period of time across calls.

This class differs from `MultiCURLHandle-class` as it can handle only one request at a time and blocks until the request is completed (normally or abnormally). The other class can handle asynchronous, multiple connections.

### Objects from the Class

A virtual Class: No objects may be created from it.

### Extends

Class `"oldClass"`, directly.

### Methods

### Author(s)

Duncan Temple Lang

### References

http://curl.haxx.se, the libcurl web site.

### See Also

`getURL`, `getForm`, `postForm` `dupCurlHandle`, `getCurlHandle`, `MultiCURLHandle-class`

[Package RCurl version 0.98-1 Index]