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- Thu Jul 07, 2016 10:12 am #50351

A question for you Martin, or any other smart person : of the different library choices for making HTTP requests, do you have a preferred library? If so, why: better syntax, faster method, smaller binary, etc?

Thanks. I've just moved over to the Arduino way of using ESP8266. It seems that this is where the most action is.

@kenn, what specifically are you wishing to do? I'm not really fond of all the libraries out, excepting MQTT which covers a lots of territory. Most simple GET/POST can be done without using external libraries just with the Arduino services.

I have a few very simple examples up on my Hackster site.
and one new one that I have not yet put together but the code is here:
http://www.esp8266.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=10025&start=4#p50296

Ray

- Thu Jul 07, 2016 3:40 pm #50376

@kenn, what specifically are you wishing to do? I'm not really fond of all the libraries out, excepting MQTT which covers a lots of territory. Most simple GET/POST can be done without using external libraries just with the Arduino services.

I have a few very simple examples up on my Hackster site.
and one new one that I have not yet put together but the code is here:
http://www.esp8266.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=10025&start=4#p50296

Ray

Hi Martin and Ray - maybe 'library' is the wrong word. I'm just noticing that there's apparently a few different ways to make HTTP requests - eg using ESP8266WiFi, ESP8266WiFiMulti, ESP8266HTTPClient. As I learn these, I am just wondering which is best to use. Thanks for the examples, I'll study those.

- Thu Jul 07, 2016 4:02 pm #50378 No, the word 'library' applies to ESP8266HTTPClient, ESP8266WiFiMulti and ESP8266WiFi.
The simplest to use would be ESP8266HTTPClient, although you can use the others, but you would need to prepare HTML header yourself.