Sends HTTP request to the specified URL and gets HTTP response as a result. First the body of the processor is executed in order to define optional HTTP parameters and/or headers and then sends HTTP request.

<http url="url"
      method="method"
      charset="charset"
      cookie-policy="cookie_policy"
      username="username"
      password="password"
      multipart="multipart">
    body that might contain http-param and/or http-header elements
</http>

Name	Required	Default	Description
url	yes		HTTP request URL.
method	no	get	HTTP method: get or post
charset	no	[Default charset for config]	Defines encoding of the HTTP response content. Has no effect if content type is binary.
cookie-policy	no	[Default cookie policy of the HTTP client]	Specifies the way how HTTP client manages cookies. Allowed values are: browser, ignore, netscape, rfc_2109 and default.
username	no		Specifies username if URL requires authentication.
password	no		Specifies password if URL requires authentication.
multipart	no	no	Tells if form is multipart encoded (enabling data upload).

<xpath expression="data(//script)">
    <html-to-xml>
        <http url="http://www.yahoo.com/"/>
    </html-to-xml>
</xpath>