Using RHINO js engine to make http requests

Question

I'm trying to use the Mozilla/Rhino js engine to test some SOAP requests in the command line. However, none of the normal objects for making requests (XMLHttpRequest, HttpRequest) seem to be available. Why is this? Can I import libraries?

Answer 1

I was able to get it to work using just Rhino with the following code.

var post = new org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.PostMethod("https://someurl/and/path/");
var client = new org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient();

// ---- Authentication ---- //
var creds = new org.apache.commons.httpclient.UsernamePasswordCredentials("username", "password");
client.getParams().setAuthenticationPreemptive(true);
client.getState().setCredentials(org.apache.commons.httpclient.auth.AuthScope.ANY, creds);
// -------------------------- //

post.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/xml");
post.setRequestEntity(new org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.StringRequestEntity(buildXML(), "text/plain", "ASCII" ));

var status = client.executeMethod(post);
var br = new java.io.BufferedReader(new java.io.InputStreamReader(post.getResponseBodyAsStream()));
var response = "";
var line = br.readLine();
while(line != null){
    response = response + line;
    line = br.readLine();
}

post.releaseConnection();