»HTTP Data Source

Type: http

The http data source makes an HTTP GET request to the given URL and exports information about the response.

Basic Example

data "http" "example" {
  url = "https://checkpoint-api.hashicorp.com/v1/check/terraform"

  # Optional request headers
  request_headers = {
    Accept = "application/json"
  }
}

Configuration Reference

Configuration options are organized below into two categories: required and optional. Within each category, the available options are alphabetized and described.

Required:

• url (string) - The URL to request data from. This URL must respond with a 200 OK response and a text/* or application/json Content-Type.

Not Required:

• request_headers (map[string]string) - A map of strings representing additional HTTP headers to include in the request.

Datasource outputs

The outputs for this datasource are as follows:

• url (string) - The URL the data was requested from.

• body (string) - The raw body of the HTTP response.

• request_headers (map[string]string) - A map of strings representing the response HTTP headers. Duplicate headers are concatenated with, according to RFC2616.