hackney VS cowlib

Compare hackney vs cowlib and see what are their differences.

hackney

simple HTTP client in Erlang (by benoitc)

cowlib

Support library for manipulating Web protocols. (by ninenines)
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hackney cowlib
3 1
1,310 273
- 1.5%
6.8 4.4
about 1 month ago 8 days ago
Erlang Erlang
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later 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

Posts with mentions or reviews of cowlib. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-10.
  • 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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

hound - Elixir library for writing integration tests and browser automation

ranch - Socket acceptor pool for TCP protocols.

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

brod - Apache Kafka client library for Erlang/Elixir