I can't find a way to do HEAD and OPTIONS requests via ktor-client - are these actually missing, or ...

# ktor

[robin]

I can't find a way to do HEAD and OPTIONS requests via ktor-client - are these actually missing, or did I just look in the wrong place? I'd have expected them to look like httpClient.head(url), just like httpClient.get(url) does

[Deactivated User]

You can use call, and `request`: https://ktor.io/clients/http-client/calls/requests.html#custom-requests

and set the method = HttpMethod.YourMethod

[Deactivated User]

I think there are no shortcuts for other verbs other than get and post

[Deactivated User]

But you can include them in your code if you want

[Deactivated User]

just copy the get or post extension methods and adjust accordingly

[r4zzz4k]

There are also .put and .delete there, but no head and options shortlands. Was just printing the answer with this link 🙂
https://github.com/ktorio/ktor/blob/a65667a6f0ca98128c38025f989bad7cb6da4576/ktor-client/ktor-client-core/src/io/ktor/client/request/builders.kt#L65

[Deactivated User]

oh, right,then I have to update the documentation 🙂

[robin]

Thanks, that helped! So does anyone know if there's a specific reason for omitting just these two verbs from the shorthands? Should be simple enough to patch them in

[Deactivated User]

probably no specific reason, I guess, just not done 🙂 but @e5l can you confirm?

[e5l]

The head and options methods has specific semantic in http and I consider to hide them from the simple builders.

[e5l]

You could always set the HttpMethod in call and request methods.

[Deactivated User]

I have updated the documentation to reflect all the things we have talked about: https://ktor.io/clients/http-client/calls/requests.html#shortcut-methods