I brought this up here but that thread has gotten long and there are multiple conversations happening: [image] Can we somehow achieve or build a canister with a interface bahaving like a classic web server Developers In agent-rs, all requests to canisters implementing the…

My first PR was closed because icx-proxy moved to its own repo. The most relevant PR now is: feat: upgrade HTTP calls upon canister's request dfinity:main ← paulyoung:paulyoung/http-request opened 10:54PM - 22 Dec 21 UTC…

I did a quick test with the Motoko playground: Motoko Playground - DFINITY A playground for the Internet Computer's native Motoko language, brought to you by DFINITY And it works! If you go to https://y4oop-liaaa-aaaab-qacha-cai.raw.ic0.app/ it loads kinda …

Thanks for the example! This is huge! Quick question, is there a way to pass in authentication headers so that message.caller set?

Something like return_and_upgrade would be great for tracking statistics.

[image] skilesare: is there a way to pass in authentication headers so that message.caller set? I’m pretty sure you can set whatever headers you like and check for them in either of the http request functions.

[image] skilesare: Something like return_and_upgrade would be great for tracking statistics. Both http functions already return a HttpResponse. Is that not sufficient?

I was thinking of a guaranteed way of calling an update after returning the fast query. I want the client to get the query response quickly, and the I want to record an Incerement of a served asset in an update. I could have the client do it, but it would be hackable. If the service worker did it a…

This feature also begs the question of how the thing actually works. I assume there is some Kind of replay protection built into the protocol and the request has to be signed, so I’m guessing that these http requests are always anon principal. There is no problem processing the http_request_update b…

[image] skilesare: I was thinking of a guaranteed way of calling an update after returning the fast query. That seems doable but with the caveat that once the client making the HTTP request gets a response (the result of the query) it has no way of being informed of the result of the update c…

Yep…that would be fine. There are a whole host of applications that would be facilitated by being able to know that a query was served without having to have the client wait for consensus. Decentralized AdWords.

[image] skilesare: I assume there is some Kind of replay protection built into the protocol and the request has to be signed I encourage you not to make such assumptions :slightly_smiling_face: As far as I can tell none of the above is true.

Feature request: map appropriate HTTP request methods to update calls

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jzxchiang April 22, 2022, 6:20am 57

Yeah, I just verified… seems like http_request is called with the anonymous Principal.

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