Julia 1.0 Programming Complete Reference Guide

The message body

Since we just confirmed that we have a response body, let's see it:

julia> resp.body 
193324-element Array{UInt8,1}: 
 0x3c 
 0x21 
 0x44  
# ... output truncated ...  

Oops, that doesn't look like the web page we were expecting. No worries though, these are the bytes of the raw response—which we can easily convert to a human-readable HTML string. Remember that I mentioned the String method when learning about strings? Well, this is where it comes in handy:

julia> resp_body = String(resp.body) 

Your REPL should now be outputting a long HTML string that represents Julia's Wikipedia page.

If we take a look at the first 500 characters, we'll start to see familiar patterns:

julia> resp_body[1:500] 

The output is as follows:

Sure enough, ...