RAA - httpclient

‘httpclient’ gives something like the functionality of libwww-perl (LWP) in Ruby. ‘httpclient’ formerly known as ‘http-access2’.

Features:

• methods like GET/HEAD/POST/* via HTTP/1.1.
• HTTPS(SSL), Cookies, proxy, authentication(Digest, NTLM, Basic), etc.
• asynchronous HTTP request, streaming HTTP request.
• by contrast with net/http in standard distribution;
  • Cookies support
  • MT-safe
  • streaming POST (POST with File/IO)
  • Digest auth
  • Negotiate/NTLM auth for WWW-Authenticate (requires net/htlm module)
  • NTLM auth for WWW-Authenticate/Proxy-Authenticate (requires win32/sspi module)
  • extensible with filter interface
  • you don’t have to care HTTP/1.1 persistent connection (httpclient cares instead of you)
• Not supported now
  • Cache
  • Rather advanced HTTP/1.1 usage such as Range, deflate, etc. (of course you can set it in header by yourself)

For more detail, see API document at dev.ctor.org/doc/httpclient/

API Document

dev.ctor.org/doc/httpclient/

Download

• Stable: dev.ctor.org/download/httpclient-2.1.5.tar.gz (tar + gzip)
• Stable: dev.ctor.org/download/httpclient-2.1.5.zip (ZIP)
• Older versions: dev.ctor.org/download/archive/
• Gem repository for stable version
  • (at default remove source at rubyforge.org)
• Gem repository for development version
  • dev.ctor.org/download/
• svn: dev.ctor.org/svn/http-access2/trunk/

Gem

You can install httpclient with rubygems.

  % gem install httpclient --source http://dev.ctor.org/download/

Bug report or Feature request

Please file a ticket.

1. find a similar ticket from dev.ctor.org/http-access2/search?ticket=on
2. login as an anonymous user (user/user for username and password) from dev.ctor.org/http-access2/login
3. create a new ticket from dev.ctor.org/http-access2/newticket

Thanks in advance.