HTTP

httpget and httppost are synchronous — they block until the response arrives and return the response body as a string. They never raise an error: an HTTP error status (e.g. 404) returns the server's response body, and a connection failure (e.g. an unreachable host) returns an empty string. They are the global equivalents of game:HttpGet / game:HttpPost.

httpget

function httpget(url: string, headers: table?): string

Sends a GET request to url and returns the response body. Optionally pass a table of request headers.

local body = httpget("https://example.com/data.json")
if body ~= "" then
    local data = game:GetService("HttpService"):JSONDecode(body)
end

httppost

function httppost(url: string, body: string, contentType: string?, headers: table?): string

Sends a POST request to url with body and returns the response body. contentType defaults to "application/json". Optionally pass a table of request headers as the fourth argument.

local resp = httppost("https://example.com/api", '{"action":"ping"}', "application/json")