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http-2vssuperagent

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Pure Ruby, framework and transport agnostic, implementation of HTTP/2 protocol and HPACK header compression with support for:

  • Binary framing parsing and encoding
  • Stream multiplexing and prioritization
  • Connection and stream flow control
  • Header compression and server push
  • Connection and stream management
  • And more... see API docs

Protocol specifications:

  • Hypertext Transfer Protocol Version 2 (RFC 7540)
  • HPACK: Header Compression for HTTP/2 (RFC 7541)

superagent is an HTTP client library for Node.js that provides a simple, flexible, and powerful API for making HTTP requests. It supports all major HTTP methods, and has a clean and easy-to-use interface for handling responses and errors.

what differentiates superagent from other http clients is its simple declarative API.

Highlights


http2
declarativeproxypopular

Example Use


require 'http/2'

# GET request
client = HTTP2::Client.new
response = client.get("https://httpbin.org/get")
puts response.body

# POST reuqest
data = { name: "value" }
response = client.post("https://www.example.com", data)
const superagent = require('superagent');

// superagent supports both Promises and async/await
superagent.get('https://httpbin.org/get')
    .then(res => console.log(res.text))
    .catch(err => console.error(err));
const response = superagent.get('https://httpbin.org/get')

// post requests:
superagent.post('https://httpbin.org/post').send({ name: 'John Doe' })

// setting proxy
superagent.get('https://httpbin.org/ip').proxy('http://proxy.example.com:8080')

// settings headers and proxies
superagent.get('https://httpbin.org/headers').set('Cookie', 'myCookie=123').set('X-My-Header', 'myValue')

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