Script.Util.HttpGet

Overview

Performs a GET from the specified URL and interacts with HTTP headers as specified by the applicable methods. This function caches content for use in mail sends. This function returns a Script.Util.HttpResponse object with the response from the GET call. Marketing Cloud sets the timeout for this function at 30 seconds.

Syntax

Script.Util.HttpGet(1)

Function Properties

Ordinal	Type		Description
1	string	Required	Returns the specified response header

Methods

• setHeader() - Name and value pairs of headers sent when performing the GET request, which disables content caching
• removeHeader() - String value indicating header to remove from collection sent with request
• clearHeader() - String value indicating removal of all custom headers set for the request
• send() - Perform a send of the request to the website and returns a response data object

  Additional Properties

• retries - Numerical value that sets the number of times the call will retry, defaults to 1
• continueOnError - Boolean value indicating whether call returns an exception upon an error or continues. Defaults to false.
  • true - continues
  • false - returns an exception
• emptyContentHandling - Numerical value indicating how the call responds when the GET call returns no content:
  • 0 - continue
  • 1 - stop the call
  • 2 - Move on to next subscriber for email sends only

Example

<script runat="server">
   var req = new Script.Util.HttpGet("http://www.example.com/");
   var resp = req.send();
   Platform.Response.Write("Content:<br/ >"+resp.content +"<br />");
</script>