http-message VS Requests

Compare http-message vs Requests and see what are their differences.

http-message

The purpose of this PSR is to provide a set of common interfaces for HTTP messages as described in RFC 7230 and RFC 7231 (by php-fig)

Requests

Requests for PHP is a humble HTTP request library. It simplifies how you interact with other sites and takes away all your worries. (by rmccue)
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http-message Requests
17 2
6,899 3,557
0.3% 0.1%
2.4 8.1
7 months ago 30 days ago
PHP PHP
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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http-message

Posts with mentions or reviews of http-message. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-29.

Requests

Posts with mentions or reviews of Requests. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-29.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing http-message and Requests you can also consider the following projects:

L5-Swagger - OpenApi or Swagger integration to Laravel

Guzzle - Guzzle, an extensible PHP HTTP client

Nyholm PSR-7 - A super lightweight PSR-7 implementation

curl-impersonate-php - Curl-Impersonate-PHP is an implementation of the original project Curl-Impersonate, available at https://github.com/lwthiker/curl-impersonate, which introduces a specialized cURL build that can mimic the behavior of four major browsers. By using Curl-Impersonate-PHP, you can make HTTP requests from PHP using cURL but with headers and behavior that resemble Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Microsoft Edge.

console - Eases the creation of beautiful and testable command line interfaces

HTTPFul - A Chainable, REST Friendly, PHP HTTP Client. A sane alternative to cURL.

PHP Dotenv - Loads environment variables from `.env` to `getenv()`, `$_ENV` and `$_SERVER` automagically.

PHP VCR - Record your test suite's HTTP interactions and replay them during future test runs for fast, deterministic, accurate tests.

PHP OAuth 2.0 Server - A spec compliant, secure by default PHP OAuth 2.0 Server

Retrofit - Retrofit implementation in PHP. A REST client for PHP.

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