excon
Usable, fast, simple HTTP 1.1 for Ruby (by excon)
Http Client
'httpclient' gives something like the functionality of libwww-perl (LWP) in Ruby. (by nahi)
| excon | Http Client | |
|---|---|---|
| - | 3 | |
| 1,152 | 698 | |
| 0.0% | - | |
| 8.0 | 4.1 | |
| 10 days ago | 3 months ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| MIT License | Ruby License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
excon
Posts with mentions or reviews of excon.
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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
Http Client
Posts with mentions or reviews of Http Client.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-15.
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Turbocharge HTTP requests in Ruby
I think an implementation similar to this is built-in transparently to the oft-ignored ruby httpclient
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The Best Ruby HTTP clients for 2021
I also don't know why these comparisons never include one of my favorites, HTTPClient. Although it's got some issues (pun intended) in it's maintenance/unclosed issues. :(
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HTTP clients monthly benchmark
A fairly popular HTTP client that isnt included is httpclient
What are some alternatives?
When comparing excon and Http Client you can also consider the following projects:
Faraday - Simple, but flexible HTTP client library, with support for multiple backends.
RESTClient - Simple HTTP and REST client for Ruby, inspired by microframework syntax for specifying actions.
httparty - :tada: Makes http fun again!
Typhoeus - Typhoeus wraps libcurl in order to make fast and reliable requests.
Unirest - Unirest in Ruby: Simplified, lightweight HTTP client library.
HTTP - HTTP (The Gem! a.k.a. http.rb) - a fast Ruby HTTP client with a chainable API, streaming support, and timeouts
Sawyer - Secret User Agent of HTTP
Savon - Heavy metal SOAP client