title: Loop HTTP Request in Background?
body: <p>I'm pretty new to working with HTTP stuff so I'm rather confused as to what would be the best approach to request data from a HTTP address every few seconds or so.</p>
  
  <p>The API I'm using has - at least to my knowledge no webhook support. So I imagine the way to update my data would be a rather crude way of doing so.</p>
  
  <p>I want this to happen in the background so the GUI does not freeze and become unresponsive. So I know I (probably) need to fiddle with threads.</p>
  
  <p>Best results I've had has been with a async/await Timer. I'm not entirely sure how to work with this and the only way for me to get it to work is to throw an exception after it has elapsed. If I don't - it says that not all nodes return a value and I can't even use return which really, really confuses me.</p>
  
  <p>How should I be doing this?</p>
  
  <p>If it's of any use, I'm working on creating my own RCON tool for a game which has all kinds of server data available via a HTTP API - but documentation for this API is very lackluster.</p>