[erlang-questions] Erlang HTTP client libraries- pros/cons

[Taras Halturin]

I think, Max means that you choose most expensive way to deal with it and
it's not about efficiency of http handling but about efficiency of aim
achieving :)

On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 9:04 AM, Paul Oliver <puzza007@REDACTED> wrote:

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> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 5:01 PM Max Lapshin <max.lapshin@REDACTED> wrote:
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>> I've looked into your katipo and I do not understand what for is it.
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> It's a way to use libcurl from Erlang. You can find more information about
> libcurl here https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/.
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>> You launch curl as a separate program and communicate with it from
>> erlang. What for?
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> HTTP compatibility (curl) and safety (port program).
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>> Erlang has excellent network communication system and you have selected
>> most inefficient way to fetch http.
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> As mentioned in my earlier email, the httpc_benchmark ranks katipo fairly
> well so any inefficiency of using an external port doesn't seem to be
> taking too much of a toll. I've considered using some sort of NIF but
> haven't found the need. Pull requests welcome though.
>
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>> We in Flussonic use lhttpc and it works for us.  Some fixes like adding
>> timing and internal protocol support and it works for us.
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Taras Halturin
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