Send http request from server

[czarop]

Hi,

I'm using Microdot as an async server on Pico W. It's rock solid and works great.
Likely my poor understanding, but I want to periodically (every 24hrs) send an http request from the same pico, to a 3rd party website to request some data. I am doing this with a blocking call with urequests, which I'm ok with given the infrequent nature of the calls.

This is obviously not too difficult & works fine when not hosting the server, but when I try to do this while running the microdot server, I run into problems - either the server stops or I cannot establish a connection to make the request.

Is there a way to do this with Microdot? Can I create and send a request via the request class somehow? Do I have a fundamental gap in my knowledge on why this is not possible?!

Any leads or suggestions much appreciated!

[miguelgrinberg]

No, the Request class in Microdot is for incoming requests, it does not have the ability to work as a client and send requests to other web servers.

What you need to do is to use an asynchronous HTTP client instead of urequests, so that you don't block while the request is processed. Try with https://github.com/micropython/micropython-lib/tree/master/python-ecosys/aiohttp.