A lightweight and easy to use HTTP Client.

This project has created solely for learning.

Supported Protocols

• HTTP/1.0
• HTTP/1.1
• HTTP/2

Features

• Well-documented
• Support for using multiple connection scheme
• Both Sync (blocking) and Async (non-blocking) API
  • Using CompletableFuture for the async API
• Support for HTTP/2 Protocol
• Headers Factory class
• Numerous response body types
• Manipulation of cookies
• Support for HTTP authentication protocols
  • HTTP Basic
  • Digest
• Compression
• Configuration options
  • Connection, read timeout
  • Authentication settings
  • Redirect policy
  • Custom Executor
• Integrated HTTP server for JUnit tests

Core classes

• HttpRequest – represents the request to be sent via the HttpClient
• HttpClient – represents a container, used to send multiple requests and set up its configuration
• HttpResponse – represents the result of an HttpRequest call

Usage

Performance

Installation

Dependencies

• Guava 30.1
• Lombok 1.18.16
• Javalin 3.13.4