<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 4:49 PM Garrett Smith <<a href="mailto:g@rre.tt" target="_blank">g@rre.tt</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I'm taking time off from typing -module attributes to focus on my backlog of other important problems...</div><div><br></div>I'm interfacing with various OAuth providers within an Erlang application and I need a simple HTTP client. I've poked around the ecosystem and have learned that HTTP clients are the new MySQL clients in terms of which-one-to-freakin-use.<div><br></div><div>As I'm using this for user auth, memory and performance are considerations, though far behind stability and actual-workingness.</div><div><br></div><div>(In the interest of the later, I'd traditionally wrap OS curl processes because curl is known to actually work, but that _might_ not be feasible as the application grows. Come to think of it, I'm going to start with a curl wrapper and iterate by measuring, so never mind.)</div><div><br></div><div>I'd love to learn from the field experience of others. Is anyone really, really happy with the HTTP client he or she is using for semi-heavy loads like user auth?</div></div>
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