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How to do REST requests GET and POST with IRIS in Hoon Urbit?

iris-thread.hoon

/-  spider
/+  strandio
=,  strand=strand:spider
^-  thread:spider
|=  arg=vase
=/  m  (strand ,vase)
^-  form:m
=/  url=@t  (need !<((unit @t) arg))
=/  =request:http  [%'GET' url ~ ~]
=/  =task:iris  [%request request *outbound-config:iris]
=/  =card:agent:gall  [%pass /http-req %arvo %i task]
;<  ~  bind:m  (send-raw-card:strandio card)
;<  res=(pair wire sign-arvo)  bind:m  take-sign-arvo:strandio
?.  ?=([%iris %http-response %finished *] q.res)
  (strand-fail:strand %bad-sign ~)
~&  +.q.res
?~  full-file.client-response.q.res
  (strand-fail:strand %no-body ~)
(pure:m !>(`@t`q.data.u.full-file.client-response.q.res))

Performing IRIS request


-iris-thread 'http://example.com'



=/  url=@t  (need !<((unit @t) arg))
=/  =request:http  [%'GET' url ~ ~]
=/  =task:iris  [%request request *outbound-config:iris]
=/  =card:agent:gall  [%pass /http-req %arvo %i task]




=request:http  [%'GET' "https://example.com" ~ ~]

iris-post.hoon

/-  spider
/+  strandio
=,  strand=strand:spider
^-  thread:spider
|=  arg=vase
=/  m  (strand ,vase)
^-  form:m
=/  =header-list:http    ['Content-Type' 'application/json']~
=/  =request:http  
=:  method.request       %'POST'
  url.request          'https://mainnet.infura.io/v3/063b32ba31b3461ebca9646500a22df3'
  header-list.request  header-list
  body.request
    :-  ~
    %-  '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"eth_blockNumber","params":[],"id":83}'
=/  =task:iris  [%request request *outbound-config:iris]
=/  =card:agent:gall  [%pass /http-req %arvo %i task]
;<  ~  bind:m  (send-raw-card:strandio card)
;<  res=(pair wire sign-arvo)  bind:m  take-sign-arvo:strandio
?.  ?=([%iris %http-response %finished *] q.res)
  (strand-fail:strand %bad-sign ~)
~&  +.q.res
?~  full-file.client-response.q.res
  (strand-fail:strand %no-body ~)
(pure:m !>(`@t`q.data.u.full-file.client-response.q.res))

Get Block Number


curl -X POST https://mainnet.infura.io/v3/063b32ba31b3461ebca9646500a22df3 --data '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"eth_blockNumber","params":[],"id":83}'

/-  spider
/+  strandio
=,  strand=strand:spider
^-  thread:spider
|=  arg=vase
=/  m  (strand ,vase)
^-  form:m
=/  url=@t  (need !<((unit @t) arg))
=/  =request:http  [%'POST' url ~ ~]
=/  =task:iris  [%request request *outbound-config:iris]
=/  =card:agent:gall  [%pass /http-req %arvo %i task]
;<  ~  bind:m  (send-raw-card:strandio card)
;<  res=(pair wire sign-arvo)  bind:m  take-sign-arvo:strandio
?.  ?=([%iris %http-response %finished *] q.res)
  (strand-fail:strand %bad-sign ~)
~&  +.q.res
?~  full-file.client-response.q.res
  (strand-fail:strand %no-body ~)
(pure:m !>(`@t`q.data.u.full-file.client-response.q.res))

POST Request