Request

The request block creates and executes a request to a backend service.

📝 Multiple proxy and request blocks are executed in parallel.

Block name	Context	Label
`request`	Endpoint Block	⚠ A Proxy Block or Request Block w/o a label has an implicit label `"default"`. Only one Proxy Block or Request Block w/ label `"default"` per Endpoint Block is allowed.

Attributes

Name	Type	Default	Description
`backend`	string	-	References a backend in definitions for the request. Mutually exclusive with `backend` block.
`body`	string	-	Plain text request body, implicitly sets `Content-Type: text/plain` header field.
`expected_status`	tuple (int)	`[]`	If defined, the response status code will be verified against this list of codes. If the status code is not included in this list an `unexpected_status` error will be thrown which can be handled with an `error_handler`.
`form_body`	string	-	Form request body, implicitly sets `Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded` header field.
`headers`	object	-	Same as `set_request_headers` in Modifiers - Request Header.
`json_body`	string	-	JSON request body, implicitly sets `Content-Type: application/json` header field.
`method`	string	`"GET"`	The request method.
`query_params`	object	-	Key/value pairs to set query parameters for this request.
`url`	string	-	URL of the resource to request. May be relative to an origin specified in a referenced or nested `backend` block.

If the url attribute is specified and its value is an absolute URL, the protocol and host parts must be the same as in the value of the {origin} attribute of the used backend.

Nested Blocks

Name	Description
`backend`	Configures a backend for the request (zero or one). Mutually exclusive with `backend` attribute.

Examples

request {
  url = "https://httpbin.org/anything"
  body = "foo"
}