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Perform a HTTP GET request using the specified URL.
```lua
http.get(url, { options })
```
### Parameters ###
`url` is the URL to be downloaded.
`options` is a [table of options](http-options-table.md) used for this HTTP request.
### Return Values ###
There are three return values.
```lua
resource, result_str, response_code = http.get(url, { options })
```
* `resource` is the content that was retrieved or nil if it could not be retrieved.
* `result_str` is set to "OK" if successful or contains a description of the failure.
* `result_code` is the HTTP [result code](http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html) of the get.
### Examples ###
```lua
local resource, result_str, response_code = http.get("http://example.com/api.json")
```
```lua
function progress(total, current)
local ratio = current / total;
ratio = math.min(math.max(ratio, 0), 1);
local percent = math.floor(ratio * 100);
print("Download progress (" .. percent .. "%/100%)")
end
local resource, result_str, response_code = http.get("http://example.com/api.json", {
progress = progress,
headers = { "From: Premake", "Referer: Premake" },
userpwd = "username:password"
})
```
### Backward compatible function signature ###
The previous signature of this function was
```lua
http.get(url, progress, headers)
```
and continues to be supported. This is equivalent to
```lua
http.get(url, { progress = progress, headers = headers })
```
### Availability ###
Premake 5.0 or later.
### See Also ###
* [http.download](http.download.md)
* [http.post](http.post.md)