Creating implementation for idiom 101 : Load from HTTP GET request into a string

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# 101 Load from HTTP GET request into a string

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Make an HTTP request with method GET to the URL u, then store the body of the response in the string s.

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(def s (slurp u))

using System.Net.Http;

var client = new HttpClient();
s = await client.GetStringAsync(u);

import std.net.curl;
import std.conv;

string s = u.get.to!string;

import "io"
import "net/http"

res, err := http.Get(u)
if err != nil {
	return err
}
buffer, err := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
res.Body.Close()
if err != nil {
	return err
}
s := string(buffer)

String s = u.text

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<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.3.js"></script>

$.get(u, function(data){
  s = data;
});

fetch(u)
  .then(res => res.text())
  .then(text => s = text)

var xmlHttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xmlHttp.onreadystatechange = function() { 
	if (xmlHttp.readyState == 4 && xmlHttp.status == 200)
		s = xmlHttp.responseText;
}
xmlHttp.open("GET", u, true);
xmlHttp.send(null);

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const res = await fetch(u)
s = await res.text()

import java.io.IOException;
import javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection;

HttpsURLConnection h = null;
try {
    h = (HttpsURLConnection) u.openConnection();
    h.setRequestMethod("GET");
    byte a[] = h.getInputStream().readAllBytes();
    String s = new String(a);
} catch (IOException e) {
    throw new RuntimeException(e);
} finally {
    if (h != null) h.disconnect();
}

import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

String s = HttpClient.newHttpClient().send(HttpRequest.newBuilder()
                .uri(URI.create(u))
                .GET()
                .build(), HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString())
                .body();

(ql:quickload 'dexador)

(defvar *s* (string (dex:get u)))

$s = file_get_contents($u);

uses fphttpclient;

with TFPHTTPClient.Create(nil) do try
  s := get(u);
finally
  Free;
end;

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use HTTP::Tiny qw();

my $s = HTTP::Tiny->new->get($u)->{content};

import urllib.request

with urllib.request.urlopen(u) as f:
    s = f.read()

import requests

s = requests.get(u).content.decode()

require 'net/http'

u = URI("http://example.com/index.html")
s = Net::HTTP.get_response(u).body

[dependencies]
error-chain = "0.12.4"
reqwest = { version = "0.11.2", features = ["blocking"] }

use error_chain::error_chain;
use std::io::Read;

let mut response = reqwest::blocking::get(u)?;
let mut s = String::new();
response.read_to_string(&mut s)?;

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[dependencies]
ureq = "1.0"

let s = ureq::get(u).call().into_string()?;

extern crate reqwest;
use reqwest::Client;

let client = Client::new();
let s = client.get(u).send().and_then(|res| res.text())?;

val s = scala.io.Source.fromURL(u).getLines().mkString("\n")

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