elbping is a tool to ping all of the nodes behind an Amazon Elastic Load Balancer. It only works for ELBs in HTTP mode and works by triggering an HTTP 405 (METHOD NOT ALLOWED) error caused when the ELB receives a HTTP verb that is too long.

NiceHttp -- simplest library for accessing and testing HTTP and REST resources. Get http logs and statistics automatically. Use hashes on your requests. Access JSON even easier.

Gem that provides the ability to set defaults for proxies and timeouts for Net::HTTP. Simplifies integration of HTTP calls into any environment and provides a unified interface for setting values.

Provides a list of Net::HTTP timeout errors.

HTTP helper library

Rack compatible HTTP router for Ruby

SimpleHttpService is a simple Ruby library to make HTTP requests with customizable options for headers, timeouts, and retries. It provides a convenient way to create and send HTTP requests using a clean and simple interface.

The PHP language has a built-in http_build_query() function that creates a URL-encoded string that is a representation of multi-dimensional datatypes. This gem provides a mostly-congruent method in Ruby for dealing with PHP-based HTTP applications that expect parameters in this format.

Adds WebDAV-specific HTTP methods to em-http-request. Works with em-synchrony too.

HTTP fetch client based on ruby EventMachne and EM-HTTP-Request that has configureable concurrency regardless of EM's thread pool.

newrelic-httpclient allows transactions to show time spent inside httpclient requests

When consuming web services, HTTP performance can be greatly improved if you enable keep-alive and the right HTTP library. Pooled-curb helps to solve this implementing a pool of Curb (libcurl) objects and providing a pleasent API to do HTTP requests through the pool.

Zokor is an HTTP proxy tunnelling tool that collapses multiple HTTP proxies into one. It's useful when you want to send traffic through a chain of two HTTP proxies where the first supports the CONNECT verb. Zokor presents a local server that transparently tunnels packets through ...

use ENV['http_proxy'] for Net::HTTP

Downspout is an easy-to-use ruby library for downloading files from URLs, supporting both HTTP & FTP protocols. HTTP downloads can use either Net::HTTP, or libcurl (via the Curb gem)

Ruby/NTLM HTTP provides NTLM authentication over http.

HTTP Status Codes as constants, such as Net::HTTP::Status::OK = 200

HTTP Client with retries. Uses PersistentHTTP for http connection pooling, Semantic Logger for logging and metrics, and uses Secret Config for its configuration.

Easy HTTP Mock is a tool aim at quickly mock http service

Loads and replays sequences of HTTP requests from HAR (HTTP Archive) files.