lysine-dev/okhttp

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

OkHttp is a meticulous HTTP client library for the JVM, Android, and GraalVM, written in Kotlin. It provides efficient HTTP/2 and HTTP/1.1 networking with connection pooling, transparent GZIP, response caching, modern TLS, WebSockets, and SSE support via a fluent request/response API.

Use cases

• make HTTP requests from a Java or Kotlin application
• consume REST APIs on Android with efficient connection reuse
• add HTTP response caching to reduce network usage
• connect to servers over WebSockets or server-sent events
• enforce modern TLS and certificate pinning for HTTPS calls
• monitor and instrument HTTP calls with an EventListener
• intercept and rewrite requests and responses with middleware

When to choose

• you need a spec-compliant, RFC-correct HTTP client on the JVM or Android
• you want HTTP/2 multiplexing, connection pooling, and caching out of the box
• you need modern TLS features like TLS 1.3, ALPN, certificate pinning, or ECH
• you want both synchronous and asynchronous request APIs with interceptors

When to avoid

• you need to send non-standard or invalid requests (e.g., GET with a body) or heavily customize cache behavior
• you need a pluggable cache implementation, since OkHttp's cache is not an interface
• you are not on the JVM/Android platform

Facets

library · maturity stable

http-client websocket caching middleware security web-development backend mobile-development networking developer-tools jvm http2 tls sse connection-pooling dns-over-https interceptors android graalvm

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