igrigorik/em-http-request

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1215 stars · 230 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

An asynchronous HTTP client library for Ruby built on EventMachine, supporting parallel requests, streaming, keep-alive, pipelining, proxies, and auth. It integrates with middleware and works across MRI, JRuby, and Rubinius.

Use cases

• make async HTTP requests in Ruby
• issue parallel HTTP requests
• stream large HTTP responses
• upload files over HTTP asynchronously
• fetch URLs through HTTP or SOCKS5 proxies
• follow redirects with gzip decoding
• use OAuth or Basic Auth in an evented HTTP client

When to choose

• you already use EventMachine and need non-blocking HTTP
• you need many concurrent or parallel HTTP requests in Ruby
• you need streaming responses or uploads
• you need proxy (HTTP/SOCKS5) support in an async client

When to avoid

• you want a simple synchronous HTTP client
• your project does not use an evented reactor
• you need a client with an actively maintained license and modern async ecosystem (consider async-http or Typhoeus)

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

http-client middleware web-development developer-tools networking ruby cross-platform eventmachine async http parallel-requests streaming proxy-support

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