Does Joomla CMS or Joomla Framework provide any Class for making POST request to an external API?

Question

I came across:

• the documentation for Joomla's HTTP client class and
• joomla/http in packagist

Are they the same thing? Are these capable of sending POST requests to an external API?

Answer 1

As you might already figured out, yes its the same and yes thats the way it works...

As described in the manual:

use Joomla\Http\HttpFactory;

// Create an instance of a default Http object.
$http = Http\HttpFactory::getHttp();


// Prepare the update data.
$data = array('make' => 'Holden', model => 'EJ-Special');

// Invoke the GET request.

$response = $http->post('http://api.example.com/cars/1', $data);

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