HTTP request error

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I m using HTTP package version 0.7.1 in Julia 1.5.3 and I get this error when executing HTTP.get or HTTP.request methods

ERROR: type Regex has no field match_data Stacktrace: [1] getproperty(::Regex, ::Symbol) at .\Base.jl:33 [2] exec(::Regex, ::String, ::Int64) at C:\Users\abdou\.julia\packages\HTTP\YjRCz\src\parseutils.jl:4 (repeats 2 times) [3] parse_uri_reference(::String; strict::Bool) at C:\Users\abdou\.julia\packages\HTTP\YjRCz\src\URIs.jl:126 [4] parse_uri_reference(::String) at C:\Users\abdou\.julia\packages\HTTP\YjRCz\src\URIs.jl:126 [5] HTTP.URIs.URI(::String) at C:\Users\abdou\.julia\packages\HTTP\YjRCz\src\URIs.jl:144 [6] request(::String, ::String, ::Array{Pair{SubString{String},SubString{String}},1}, ::Array{UInt8,1}; headers::Array{Pair{SubString{String},SubString

{String}},1}, body::Array{UI
nt8,1}, query::Nothing, kw::Base.Iterators.Pairs{Union{},Union{},Tuple{},NamedTuple{(),Tuple{}}}) at C:\Users\abdou.julia\packages\HTTP\YjRCz\src\HTTP.jl:312
[7] request(::String, ::String, ::Array{Pair{SubString{String},SubString{String}},1}, ::Array{UInt8,1}) at C:\Users\abdou.julia\packages\HTTP\YjRCz\src \HTTP.jl:312 (repeats 2 tim
es)
[8] get(::String; kw::Base.Iterators.Pairs{Union{},Union{},Tuple{},NamedTuple{(),Tuple{}}}) at C:\Users\abdou.julia\packages\HTTP\YjRCz\src\HTTP.jl:349
[9] get(::String) at C:\Users\abdou.julia\packages\HTTP\YjRCz\src\HTTP.jl:349
[10] top-level scope at REPL[30]:1

The code generating this error is in parseutils.jl file in HTTP source code. This code uses a field named match_data for a variable of type Regex but Regex type has no such field. Is there any way to fix that? Thanks for any reply

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Can you show us the code you ran that generates that error?

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The code is as simple like this

using HTTP HTTP.get("https://www.developpez.com") or HTTP.request("GET", "https://www.developpez.com")

The problem is that the code source in the file parseutils.jl in HTTP package uses a field named match_data of Regex type. Regex type do not have this field.This is probably a problem of Julia version or HTTP package version. I m new in Julia so ... Thanks for reply.

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Interesting. HTTP.get("https://www.developpez.com") works on my laptop. I’m on version 1.5.1 of Julia and version 0.8.19 of HTTP. Can you try to update your version of the HTTP.jl package?

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Looks like some time between 1.2 to 1.3, there was a update to Base’s Regex, and it has remove the match_data field. So you might want to downgrade base Julia to 1.2 or upgrade HTTP.jl to at least 0.8.4, where it seems to re-worked its own RegexAndMatchData?

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/c6da87ff4bc7a855e217856757ad3413cf6d1f79/base/regex.jl#L20
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/2d5741174ce3e6a394010d2e470e4269ca54607f/base/regex.jl#L20

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I’ve updated the HTTP package and now all requests are working well.
Thanks for all contributions.

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Cross posting for reference but someone had the same issue here: How to fix HTTP in Julia with "type Regex has no field match_data" error? - Stack Overflow

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