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HTTP clients

Easily interact with HTTP-based services

Web Servers

Expose HTTP-based services from Ruby. Usually these are used with a rack-based Ruby web framework.
A long-lived project that still receives updates
An easy-to-use client library for making requests from Ruby. It uses a simple method chaining system for building requests, similar to Python's Requests.
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Pure-ruby HTTP 2.0 protocol implementation
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A library for translating HTTP request and response objects for various clients into a common representation.
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HTTPalooza brings together the best Ruby HTTP clients on one stage.
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A lightweight framework for doing http-connections in Ruby. Supports cookies, keep-alive, compressing and much more.
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Simple library for HTTP Accept header parsing and ordering.
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helps cut through the clutter of HTTP testing
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Parse Accept and Accept-Language HTTP headers.
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Find out which locale the user preferes by reading the languages they specified in their browser
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Http client wrapper for simplified api access
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A library to interact with HTTP Archives (.har files)
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Http API Tools
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HTTPal is a Ruby HTTP library that provides browser-like functionality in terms of saving cookies between requests and proper REFERER handling.
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A gem providing a nice DSL for building HTTP api wrappers.
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http based auth gem
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When required, HTTPAutorec enables VCR (with WebMock) and all HTTP requests are cached in ./http_autorec_cache by default. You can temporarily enable it without modifying your code, like this: `ruby -rhttp_autorec your_script.rb`.
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The simple_api_client gem provides Net::Http as a default HttpCaller, this gem adds Curb as an HttpCaller option.
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