I think you could do this via requests directly. It could be done in emacs: https://github.com/tkf/emacs-request

or python: http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/

In your case you could have a block like this:

#+BEGIN_SRC python
import requests
headers = {"Authorization": "Basic YmVfcmVzdF9hZG1",
"Accept-Encoding": "application/xml"}
r = requests.get("http://myserver/rest/dothis", headers=headers)
print r.text
#+END_SRC

John

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On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Karl Voit <devnull@karl-voit.at> wrote:

Hi!

I am not an ELISP programmer (unfortunately) but a proud heavy-user
of Org-mode. At work, I need a REST-client to talk to a REST API
very often.

Recently, I found [1] which works quite well. However, I need to
open a new buffer into restclient-mode to execute requests.

Wouldn't it be nice if Org-mode could integrate this tool so that,
e.g., following example could be invoked via babel?

#+BEGIN_SRC REST
GET http://myserver/rest/dothis
Authorization: Basic YmVfcmVzdF9hZG1
Accept-Encoding: application/xml
#+END_SRC

#+RESULTS:
: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
: <faultInfo xmlns="http://example.com/product/model">
: <...>
: </faultInfo>

I also proposed this as a request on [2] but the author is not using
Org-mode on a regular basis.

So: is there any volunteer who wants to complete Org-mode's
featureset even more?

Thanks!

1. https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el
2. https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el/issues/21
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