httprb/http

Health v2 · maintenance only

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3084 stars · 325 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

http.rb is a fast, easy-to-use Ruby HTTP client library with a chainable API. It implements the HTTP protocol natively using the llhttp parser for high performance, with support for streaming responses, persistent connections, and fine-grained timeouts.

Use cases

• make http requests from ruby
• stream large http response bodies
• ruby http client with timeouts
• replace net::http with a cleaner api
• download files over http in ruby
• make persistent keep-alive http connections

When to choose

• you want a clean, chainable API instead of Net::HTTP
• you need high-performance HTTP parsing via native extensions
• you need response body streaming or fine-grained timeouts
• you need persistent connections in Ruby

When to avoid

• you need a full-featured client with built-in retries, cookies, and middleware out of the box
• your project already standardizes on another Ruby HTTP client like Faraday
• you need async/evented HTTP (consider a dedicated async client)

Facets

library · maturity active

http-client web-development developer-tools apis ruby cross-platform http streaming timeouts chainable-api llhttp

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