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HTTP (The Gem! a.k.a. http.rb) - a fast Ruby HTTP client with a chainable API, streaming support, and timeouts

6 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 0 stories, 6 comments · first 2011-10-10 · latest 2019-10-30

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  1. …for sharing. I've always had good success with httprb[1], but I'll give this a look over too. [1] https://github.com/httprb/http
    comment by acejam · 2019-10-30 · in Httpx: A Ruby HTTP library
  2. …Github "helpfully" uploaded all the Ruby packages to the gems repository meaning all 217 forks of https://github.com/httprb/http became potential gems. But the underlying idea is sound: namespace and federation. Rust should ideally follow…
    comment by fnord123 · 2019-08-22 · in Thoughts on Rust bloat
  3. …doesn't use Timeout/timeout.rb (but instead uses an asynchronous I/O layer), check out http.rb: https://github.com/httprb/http
    comment by bascule · 2015-11-27 · in Timeout: Ruby's Most Dangerous API
  4. …writing my own client using Carl Lerche's parser for his Picard library which is written in Ragel: https://github.com/tarcieri/http/tree/master/parser
    comment by bascule · 2011-10-10 · in Python Requests: HTTP for Humans
  5. Here's the new one I'm working on: https://github.com/tarcieri/http httparty does a few of the same tricks, but I still find its API a bit obtrusive. At least it automatically parses JSON! (my library does this too, if an appropriate…
    comment by bascule · 2011-10-10 · in Python Requests: HTTP for Humans
  6. I just started working on a similar library for Ruby: https://github.com/tarcieri/http
    comment by bascule · 2011-10-10 · in Python Requests: HTTP for Humans