# Julia HTTP not working

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-http-not-working/66899
**Category:** New to Julia
**Tags:** http
**Created:** [August 24, 2021, 7:10am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-http-not-working/66899 "2021-08-24T07:10:08Z")
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### Author: ![cchderrick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@cchderrick](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cchderrick)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2021, 7:34pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-http-not-working/66899/4 "2021-08-24T19:34:12Z")

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> [@HTTP request error](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/http-request-error/52716):
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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…

My conclusion was that between Julia version 1.2 to 1.3, the base Regex removed `match_data` field. I think HTTP.jl version 0.8.4 and up has updated to that removal. Can you double check your HTTP.jl version?

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