gun VS cowlib

Compare gun vs cowlib and see what are their differences.

gun

HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, Websocket client (and more) for Erlang/OTP. (by ninenines)
HTTP HTTPS HTTP Client HTTP2 http2-client WebSocket Websockets websocket-client Erlang REST Cowboy High Performance production-ready Web Functional
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cowlib

Support library for manipulating Web protocols. (by ninenines)
Erlang HTTP Parser WebSocket HTTP2
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gun cowlib
1 1
884 274
1.1% 1.8%
5.5 4.4
23 days ago about 1 month ago
Erlang Erlang
ISC License ISC License
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gun

Posts with mentions or reviews of gun. 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.

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 gun and cowlib you can also consider the following projects:

http_proxy - http proxy with Elixir. wait request with multi port and forward to each URIs

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

mint - Functional HTTP client for Elixir with support for HTTP/1 and HTTP/2 🌱

hackney - simple HTTP client in Erlang

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

ranch - Socket acceptor pool for TCP protocols.

finch - Elixir HTTP client, focused on performance

ast_ninja - The Elixir AST explorer

HttpCanary - A powerful capture and injection tool for the Android platform

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

Crawly - Crawly, a high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Elixir.

bolt - Simple and fast http proxy living in the Erlang VM

gun vs http_proxy cowlib vs cowboy gun vs mint cowlib vs hackney gun vs lhttpc cowlib vs ranch gun vs finch cowlib vs ast_ninja gun vs HttpCanary cowlib vs CouchDB gun vs Crawly gun vs bolt