h2non/gentleman

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1131 stars · 58 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

gentleman is a plugin-driven, middleware-oriented HTTP client toolkit for Go, built on top of net/http. It lets developers compose rich HTTP clients from reusable built-in or third-party plugins such as retry policies and Consul-based service discovery.

Use cases

• build a composable http client in go with plugins
• add retry policy to go http requests
• intercept and modify http traffic on the fly in go
• serialize xml multipart request bodies in go
• mock http client requests in go tests
• build a domain-specific api client sdk in go
• do consul service discovery for http clients

When to choose

• you need an extensible, plugin-based http client layer in go
• you want middleware-style interception across the full http lifecycle
• you are building reusable sdk clients for specific apis
• you want dependency-free http client composition with built-in /xml/multipart support

When to avoid

• you just need simple one-off http requests - net/http or a lighter wrapper suffices
• you need a very actively developed project with frequent releases
• you prefer a non-middleware, straightforward client api

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

http-client middleware serialization plugin-system web-development apis developer-tools go cross-platform http-client-toolkit fluent-api retry service-discovery http-mocking

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