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httpfulvshttpclient

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Httpful is a simple Http Client library for PHP 7.2+. There is an emphasis of readability, simplicity, and flexibility – basically provide the features and flexibility to get the job done and make those features really easy to use.

Features

  • Readable HTTP Method Support (GET, PUT, POST, DELETE, HEAD, PATCH and OPTIONS)
  • Custom Headers
  • Automatic "Smart" Parsing
  • Automatic Payload Serialization
  • Basic Auth
  • Client Side Certificate Auth
  • Request "Templates"

HTTPClient is a Ruby gem that provides a simple and flexible interface for making HTTP requests. It's a full-featured HTTP client library with support for cookies, redirects, proxy, and more. It's built on top of the libwww-perl library, which is a widely-used, robust and well-documented library.

Features:

  • methods like GET/HEAD/POST/* via HTTP/1.1.
  • HTTPS(SSL), Cookies, proxy, authentication(Digest, NTLM, Basic), etc.
  • asynchronous HTTP request, streaming HTTP request.
  • debug mode CLI.
  • by contrast with net/http in standard distribution;
  • Cookies support
  • MT-safe
  • streaming POST (POST with File/IO)
  • Digest auth
  • Negotiate/NTLM auth for WWW-Authenticate (requires net/ntlm module; rubyntlm gem)
  • NTLM auth for Proxy-Authenticate (requires 'win32/sspi' module; rubysspi gem)
  • extensible with filter interface
  • you don't have to care HTTP/1.1 persistent connection (httpclient cares instead of you)

Example Use


```javascript require 'vendor/autoload.php'; use Httpful\Request; // make GET request $response = \Httpful\Request::get("http://httpbin.org/get") ->send(); echo $response->body; // make POST request $data = array('name' => 'Bob', 'age' => 35); $response = \Httpful\Request::post("http://httpbin.org/post") ->sendsJson() ->body(json_encode($data)) ->send(); echo $response->body; // add headers or cookies $response = \Httpful\Request::get("http://httpbin.org/headers") ->addHeader("API-KEY", "mykey") ->addHeader("Cookie", "foo=bar") ->send(); echo $response->body; ```
```ruby require 'httpclient' client = HTTPClient.new # GET requests response = client.get("http://httpbin.org/get") puts response.content # POST requests data = { name: "value" } response = client.post("http://httpbin.org/post", data) puts response.content ```

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