I copied the following code from the inets User's Guide:
$ erl
Erlang/OTP 19 [erts-8.2] [source] [64-bit] [smp:4:4] [async-threads:10] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false]
Eshell V8.2 (abort with ^G)
1> inets:start().
ok
2> httpc:set_options([{proxy, {{"www-proxy.mycompany.com", 8000}, ["localhost"]}}]).
ok
3> {ok, {{Version, 200, ReasonPhrase}, Headers, Body}} = httpc:request("http://www.erlang.org").
* exception error: no match of right hand side value
{error,
{failed_connect,
[{to_address,{"www-proxy.mycompany.com",8000}},
{inet,[inet],etimedout}]}}
I need advice on how to get that request to complete successfully.
This seems to work:
$ erl
Erlang/OTP 19 [erts-8.2] [source] [64-bit] [smp:4:4] [async-threads:10] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false]
Eshell V8.2 (abort with ^G)
1> inets:start().
ok
2> {ok, {{Version, 200, ReasonPhrase}, Headers, Body}} = httpc:request("http://www.erlang.org").
{ok,{{"HTTP/1.1",200,"OK"},
[{"connection","keep-alive"},
{"date","Sun, 25 Feb 2018 13:44:59 GMT"},
{"server","nginx"},
{"vary","Accept-Encoding"},
{"content-length","12816"},
{"content-type","text/html; charset=UTF-8"}],
"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n <head>\n <title>Erlang Programming Language</title>\n <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html;charset=utf-8\"/>\n <meta name=\"description\" content=\"Erlang Programming Language\"/>\n <meta name=\"keywords\" content=\"erlang, functional, programming, fault-tolerant, distributed, multi-platform, portable, software, multi-core, smp, concurrency\"/>\n
The User's Guide says:
The following calls use the default client profile. Use the proxy "www-proxy.mycompany.com:8000", except from requests to localhost. This applies to all the following requests.
which makes as much sense to me as:
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To stop the client, do I just do:
inets:stop()
?
Edit: I must have figured out how to stop the server because I did it in this code: