Calling http_request of another canister

[paulyoung]

In the meantime I think calling http_request_update would work if you provided that and implemented it in terms of http_request. It would be slower and more expensive though.

Feature request: map appropriate HTTP request methods to update calls

Canisters can handle HTTP requests by providing a http_request function. However, http_request only allows making query calls. With my PR, canisters can now also provide a function called http_request_update that allows making update calls. When handling a HTTP request inside of http_request, if it’s necessary to make an update call, http_request can now return a response including the field upgrade with a value of true. This results in http_request_update to be called instead. Whether any of…