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httpclient - HTTP accessing library. Gem Version

Copyright (C) 2000-2015 NAKAMURA, Hiroshi nahi@ruby-lang.org.

'httpclient' gives something like the functionality of libwww-perl (LWP) in Ruby. 'httpclient' formerly known as 'http-access2'.

See HTTPClient for documentation.

Features

httpclient command

Usage: 1) httpclient get https://www.google.co.jp/?q=ruby
Usage: 2) httpclient

For 1) it issues a GET request to the given URI and shows the wiredump and the parsed result. For 2) it invokes irb shell with the binding that has a HTTPClient as 'self'. You can call HTTPClient instance methods like;

get "https://www.google.co.jp/", :q => :ruby

Author

License

This program is copyrighted free software by NAKAMURA, Hiroshi. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms of Ruby's license; either the dual license version in 2003, or any later version.

httpclient/session.rb is based on http-access.rb in http-access/0.0.4. Some part of it is copyrighted by Maebashi-san who made and published http-access/0.0.4. http-access/0.0.4 did not include license notice but when I asked Maebashi-san he agreed that I can redistribute it under the same terms of Ruby. Many thanks to Maebashi-san.

Install

You can install httpclient via rubygems: gem install httpclient

Usage

See HTTPClient for documentation. You can also check sample/howto.rb how to use APIs.

Bug report or Feature request

Please file a ticket at the project web site.

  1. find a similar ticket from https://github.com/nahi/httpclient/issues
  2. create a new ticket by clicking 'Create Issue' button.
  3. you can use github features such as pull-request if you like.

Changes

See ChangeLog