minhttp

MinHTTP

An HTTP library for the minimalist. MinHTTP allows you to send and receive raw HTTP requests. It's a very thin wrapper around EventMachine's connect method with some SSL validation added. It uses http_parser.rb for very fast HTTP parsing.

Example:

require 'minhttp'

data = <<-HTTP
GET / HTTP/1.0\r
Host: www.google.com\r

HTTP

EventMachine::run do
  Http::Min.connect("www.google.com", data) do |raw_response, parsed_response|
    puts "Received #{parsed_response.status_code} status from Google"
    puts "First 100 characters of raw HTTP response:"
    puts raw_response[0..100]
    EM::stop
  end
end

Features:

* Issue an exact HTTP request
* See the exact HTTP response
* See the parsed HTTP response
* Validate the certificate of the server

Non-Features:

* get() or post() helper methods (plenty of other HTTP libraries have these)