Track 2 · Pro Path

HTTP requests & webhooks: PerformHttpRequest

Talking to the outside world, Discord, your panel API, a license-check service, means HTTP. CFX gives you exactly one native for it: PerformHttpRequest. It is callback-based, so the response arrives later, not on the same line. It will surprise you with rate limits. And JSON bodies must be built by hand. This lesson teaches the pattern that scales from a single ban-log to a 50-server fleet.

You'll learn: PerformHttpRequest signature, why HTTP is callback-based, JSON encode for the body, retry on 429, hiding the URL from clients
Time: ~20 minutes
Prereqs: P1 (oxmysql) and Lesson 14 (server events)
Outcome: You can post a ban event to Discord, retry once on a rate-limit, and never leak a webhook URL to a client

BEFORE YOU START

Build it

Make the resource folder

The server has one folder for this lesson.

Inside your server's resources folder, create this folder:

code

resources/qu_http_webhooks

Create the files

Every file named in the manifest exists.

HTTP requests & webhooks: PerformHttpRequest

Build it

Make the resource folder

Create the files

Write fxmanifest.lua

Set the webhook in server.cfg

Write the lesson code

Start and test it

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