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Asked: 2026-06-13T18:38:24+00:00

There is a library in Python that I love called Requests. Requests is a

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There is a library in Python that I love called “Requests”. Requests is a HTTP client build on urllib3. “requests doc“.

I am looking for something similar in Ruby. Basically what I need is:

  • Upload files support (multipart/form-data).
  • Easy get/post.
  • Cookies can be passed from a response object to a request object (build manually login script).
  • Stable and Flexible.
  • Sessions support (to not have to handle cookies manually if we don’t have too).

I’ve looked at Typhoeus, but the code example in the home page doesn’t work; they have moved code along and the get method is not longer directly accessible like that, so it’s not starting well. Curb seems nice and I like cURL, there is also rest-client, which seems popular, and em-http seems pretty fast according to benchmark. There is a also Patron and curb-fu, which I haven’t have the time to try. And, of course, Net:HTTP. But, it doesn’t seem to have a mainstream solution that everyone points to.

I think a lot of people have been in my situation and I wonder what they have choosen and why?

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    I’ve eventually found this HTTPClient :
    https://github.com/nahi/httpclient

    I’ve started using it, it matches the features I wanted, and more over it’s pretty fast according to some benchmark. It also support some advanced things like streaming or chunked response. It’s shame though it’s not famous in the ruby community. 🙂

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