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I posted this in response to another Idea that was suggested however I thought it may strike up a discussion being in it's own thread.

HTTP Request Gadget

A HTTP Request gadget could open a whole new world of possibilities. The gadget could be as simple as a text field for the URL to request, a toggle to choose between GET/POST method, a timeout in milliseconds with sensible max value default and a single fat wire input.

The output could be another fat wire, this would limit request payloads and response bodies to be formatted as an array of up to 8 numbers, anything else returned from the server would fire a signal from a bad response output node (so we can show custom error text widget if server is down for example).

I imagine it could open up some cool IoT projects, I could adjust the colour or dim my studio lights, read real world sensor information (temperature, humidity, water levels etc...) and present that information in amazing ways with dreams just by being able to send and retrieve eight values mixed with a timer for periodic updates. 🤯

Even if we get multiplayer in a future update with realtime sockets, a HTTP request gadget would still be an amazing addition.