[erlang-questions] HTTP/2 client

Andrew Berman rexxe98@REDACTED
Fri Sep 30 19:04:34 CEST 2016


Hey Loïc,

Once I included MASTER for cowlib, things started working.  Thanks, Pablo!
It looks like MASTER in Gun which has the HTTP/2 code is using v1.3 of
Cowlib (in the rebar.config file) which does not seem to have the HTTP/2
code.

Thanks for all your hard work on these libraries!

Andrew

On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 1:04 AM Loïc Hoguin <essen@REDACTED> wrote:

> I do not know if the people using Gun in production so far have tried
> the HTTP/2 support we currently have. Personally all I can say is that
> it works fine with Cowboy 2, but then again Cowboy 2 doesn't have flow
> control either at this time.
>
> Gun and Cowboy 2 are developed concurrently so they'll always be
> compatible. Other servers, I suppose it depends on how strict they
> implement flow control. Not aware of an issue yet, but would love some
> feedback on it.
>
> On 09/30/2016 09:46 AM, Andrew Berman wrote:
> > Hi Pablo,
> >
> > Possibly that was the issue, I'll try again, but I do see a bunch of
> > TODOs in the gun code for HTTP/2, so it doesn't seem as ready for
> > production use as the Chatterbox client Derek mentioned.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 7:45 PM Pablo Polvorin
> > <pablo.polvorin@REDACTED <mailto:pablo.polvorin@REDACTED>>
> > wrote:
> >
> >     Hi Andrew,  maybe the problem was with dependencies?.  We are
> >     evaluating gun as well,  and got an error on the first try but the
> >     problem was that the version of cowlib we were using didn't include
> >     the latests http2 changes.  Switching to cowlib master solved that.
> >     We aren't using it on production yet,  and there are parts missing
> >     -like flow control- , but if our experience counts,  so far it seems
> >     to be good enough for our use case  (we need to interact with only
> one
> >     http/2 server implementation, on a fairly controlled way).
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >     On 29 September 2016 at 20:12, Andrew Berman <rexxe98@REDACTED
> >     <mailto:rexxe98@REDACTED>> wrote:
> >     > Is there a production ready HTTP/2 client available in Erlang?
> I've
> >     > searched and only found Gun to have some support for HTTP/2, but
> >     when I
> >     > tried to use it I got an error, and it looks like it's not quite
> >     ready for
> >     > primetime (correct me if I'm wrong, Loïc).
> >     >
> >     > Thanks!
> >     >
> >     > Andrew
> >     >
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