hackney VS cowlib

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hackney

simple HTTP client in Erlang (by benoitc)
HTTP Client HTTP Client Erlang
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cowlib

Support library for manipulating Web protocols. (by ninenines)
Erlang HTTP Parser WebSocket HTTP2
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hackney cowlib
3 1
1,313 273
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6.8 4.4
about 2 months ago 25 days ago
Erlang Erlang
Apache License 2.0 ISC License
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hackney

Posts with mentions or reviews of hackney. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-26.

cowlib

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  • Oh Erlang... where have you been all my life?
    4 projects | /r/erlang | 10 Dec 2021
    RE: HTTP/Web Sockets/TCP/UDP/etc. - check out NineNines libraries: Ranch (TCP Socket Acceptor), Cowboy (HTTP Server), Gun (HTTP client), and CowLib (General HTTP/SPDY library) are pretty good from what I hear.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing hackney and cowlib you can also consider the following projects:

httpoison - Yet Another HTTP client for Elixir powered by hackney

cowboy - Small, fast, modern HTTP server for Erlang/OTP.

tesla - The flexible HTTP client library for Elixir, with support for middleware and multiple adapters.

ranch - Socket acceptor pool for TCP protocols.

httpotion - [Deprecated because ibrowse is not maintained] HTTP client for Elixir (use Tesla please)

gun - HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, Websocket client (and more) for Erlang/OTP.

lhttpc - What used to be here -- this is a backwards-compat user and repo m(

ast_ninja - The Elixir AST explorer

Ralitobu.Plug - Elixir Plug for Ralitobu, the Rate Limiter with Token Bucket algorithm

CouchDB - Seamless multi-master syncing database with an intuitive HTTP/JSON API, designed for reliability

HttpBuilder - A DSL for building chainable, composable HTTP requests. API structure taken from the lovely elm-http-builder

Maxwell - Maxwell is an HTTP client which support for middleware and multiple adapters.

hackney vs httpoison cowlib vs cowboy hackney vs tesla cowlib vs ranch hackney vs httpotion cowlib vs gun hackney vs lhttpc cowlib vs ast_ninja hackney vs Ralitobu.Plug cowlib vs CouchDB hackney vs HttpBuilder hackney vs Maxwell