nodejs/undici
Undici
Undici is a high-performance HTTP client for Node.js designed to execute network requests while minimizing resource overhead and latency.
The project provides specialized capabilities for HTTP request pipelining to increase throughput and memory-based response caching to reduce redundant network calls. It also supports HTTP tunneling and proxying through the establishment of secure two-way communication channels via the connect method.
Additionally, the client includes tools for web API polyfilling to provide standard browser network interfaces within Node.js environments. Its functional surface covers protocol upgrades and the configuration of global defaults for dispatchers and origins.
Features
- HTTP Request Clients - Provides a high-performance client for executing standard HTTP methods to retrieve data in multiple formats.
- TCP Connection Pooling - Manages a pool of reusable TCP connections to specific origins to eliminate repeated handshake overhead.
- HTTP Pipelining - Enables sending multiple requests over a single connection without waiting for individual responses to increase throughput.
- HTTP Pipelining - Increases data throughput by pipelining multiple HTTP requests over a single connection.
- Response Caching - Stores network responses in a local memory store to reduce redundant network calls.
- Connection Establishment Protocols - Implements connection establishment for secure tunnel routing using the HTTP CONNECT method.
- HTTP Proxies - Supports routing traffic through remote proxy servers via secure two-way communication channels.
- HTTP Tunnels - Supports the HTTP CONNECT method to establish secure two-way communication channels for traffic routing.
- Socket Networking - Implements a high-performance socket controller that bypasses standard library wrappers for raw network communication.
- API Polyfills - Injects standards-compliant web classes into the global scope for consistent runtime behavior.
- HTTP Request Caching - Implements network efficiency by storing and reusing HTTP responses from a local memory store.
- State-Machine Parsers - Uses a strict state-machine parser to process raw byte streams into HTTP messages with low memory overhead.
- HTTP Clients - High-performance HTTP/1.1 client for Node.js.
- Miscellaneous Tools - High-performance HTTP/1.1 client for Node.js.
