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httpclient gives something like the functionality of libwww-perl (LWP) in Ruby. httpclient formerly known as http-access2.
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Features:
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* methods like GET/HEAD/POST/* via HTTP/1.1.
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* HTTPS(SSL), Cookies, proxy, authentication(Digest, NTLM, Basic), etc.
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* asynchronous HTTP request, streaming HTTP request.
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* by contrast with net/http in standard distribution;
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o Cookies support
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o MT-safe
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o streaming POST (POST with File/IO)
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o Digest auth
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o Negotiate/NTLM auth for WWW-Authenticate (requires net/htlm module)
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o NTLM auth for Proxy-Authenticate (requires win32/sspi module)
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o extensible with filter interface
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o you dont have to care HTTP/1.1 persistent connection (httpclient cares instead of you)
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* Not supported now
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o Cache
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o Rather advanced HTTP/1.1 usage such as Range, deflate, etc. (of course you can set it in header by yourself)
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For more detail, see API document at dev.ctor.org/doc/httpclient/
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WWW: https://github.com/nahi/httpclient
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