httpx 0.19.0 has been released.
HTTPX.get("https://gitlab.com/honeyryderchuck/httpx
<https://gitlab.com/honeyryderchuck/httpx>")
HTTPX is an HTTP client library for the Ruby programming language.
Among its features, it supports:
* HTTP/2 and HTTP/1.x protocol versions
* Concurrent requests by default
* Simple and chainable API
* Proxy Support (HTTP(S), Socks4/4a/5)
* Simple Timeout System
* Lightweight by default (require what you need)
And also:
* Compression (gzip, deflate, brotli)
* Streaming Requests
* Authentication (Basic Auth, Digest Auth, AWS Sigv4)
* Expect 100-continue
* Multipart Requests
* Cookies
* HTTP/2 Server Push
* H2C Upgrade
* Automatic follow redirects
* International Domain Names
* GRPC
# 0.19.0
https://honeyryderchuck.gitlab.io/httpx/2022/01/26/httpx-0-19-happy-eyeballs-curl-to-httpx.html
## Features
### Happy Eyeballs v2
When the system supports dual-stack networking, `httpx` implements the
Happy Eyeballs v2 algorithm (RFC 8305) to resolve hostnames to both IPv6
and IPv4 addresses while privileging IPv6 connectivity. This is implemented
by `httpx` both for the `:native` as well as the `:https` (DoH) resolver
(which do not perform address sorting, thereby being "DNS-based
load-balancing" friendly), and "outsourced" to `getaddrinfo` when using the
`:system` resolver.
IPv6 connectivity will also be privileged for `/etc/hosts` local DNS (i.e.
`localhost` connections will connec to `::1`).
A new option, `:ip_families`, will also be available (`[Socket::AF_INET6,
Socket::AF_INET]` in dual-stack systems). If you'd like to i.e. force IPv4
connectivity, you can do use it (`client = HTTPX.with(ip_families:
[Socket::AF_INET])`).
## Improvements
### DNS: :system resolver uses getaddrinfo (instead of the resolver lib)
The `:system` resolver switched to using the `getaddinfo` system function
to perform DNS requests. Not only is this call **not** blocking the session
event loop anymore (unlike pre-0.19.0 `:system` resolver), it adds a lot of
functionality that the stdlib `resolv` library just doesn't support at the
moment (such as SRV records).
### HTTP/2 proxy support
The `:proxy` plugin handles "prior-knowledge" HTTP/2 proxies.
HTTPX.plugin(:proxy, fallback_protocol: "h2").with_proxy(uri: "
http://http2-proxy:3128").get(...
Connection coalescing has also been enabled for proxied connections (also
`CONNECT`-tunneled connections).
### curl-to-httpx
widget in [project website](· HTTPX) to
turn curl commands into the equivalent `httpx` code.
## Bugfixes
* faraday adapter now supports passing session options.
* proxy: several fixes which enabled env-var (`HTTP(S)_PROXY`) defined
proxy support.
* proxy: fixed graceful recovery from proxy tcp connect errors.
* several fixes around CNAMEs timeouts with the native resolver.
* https resolver is now closed when wrapping session closes (it was left
open).
# 0.18.6
## Bugfixes
* multipart plugin: fixed `filemagic` integration by rewinding the file
after mime-type detection.
# 0.18.6
## Bugfixes
* multipart plugin: fixed missing constant in `filemagic` integration.