When I first started working on httpx, the mission was clear: make an easy-to-use open-source HTTP client that could support both legacy and future versions of the protocol, and all, or at least most, of its quirks.
I’ve been recently working on CSV generation with ruby in my day job, in order to solve a bottleneck we found because of a DB table, whose number or rows grew too large for the infrastructure to handle our poorly optimized code. This led me in a journey of discovery on how to use and play with raw ruby APIs to solve a complex problem.
Read more...When I first started working on httpx, I wanted to support as many HTTP features and corner-cases as possible. Although I wasn’t exhaustively devouring the RFCs looking for things to implement, I was rather hoping that my experience with and knowledge about different http tools (cURL, postman, different http libraries from different languages) could help me narrow them down.
First of all, welcome. This is the first post about HTTPX, the ruby http client library for the future.
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