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Hijk is a fast & minimal low-level HTTP client intended to be used
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where you control both the client and the server, e.g. for talking to
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some internal service from a frontend user-facing web application.
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It is NOT a general HTTP user agent, it doesn't support redirects,
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proxies, SSL and any number of other advanced HTTP features like (in
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roughly descending order of feature completeness) LWP::UserAgent,
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WWW::Curl, HTTP::Tiny, HTTP::Lite or Furl. This library is basically
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one step above manually talking HTTP over sockets.
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Having said that it's lightning fast and extensively used in
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production at Booking.com where it's used as the go-to transport layer
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for talking to internal services. It uses non-blocking sockets and
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correctly handles all combinations of connect/read timeouts and other
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issues you might encounter from various combinations of parts of your
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system going down or becoming otherwise unavailable.
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