rest-client/rest-client

Features

• REST API Integrations - Provides comprehensive integration logic for communicating with remote services via RESTful HTTP endpoints.
• HTTP Client Libraries - Provides a comprehensive library for performing synchronous and asynchronous HTTP requests and managing complex network interactions.
• REST API Clients - Provides a client-side implementation for interacting with RESTful services using resource modeling and HTTP methods.
• Cookie Management - Injects specific cookie values into outgoing requests and retrieves active cookies associated with URIs.
• HTTP Cookie Management - Extracts cookies from responses and maintains a standards-compliant cookie jar for subsequent requests.
• HTTP Request Customization - Provides tools for automating web requests with custom headers, payloads, and timeout settings.
• HTTP Request Execution - Provides core capabilities for performing standard synchronous and asynchronous HTTP operations like GET and POST.
• Secure Network Communication - Manages SSL/TLS certificates and proxy routing to ensure encrypted and controlled network communication.
• TLS/SSL Configurations - Manages SSL and TLS configurations, including certificate validation and SSL versioning, to secure network communication.
• HTTP Response Handling - Provides tools for extracting status codes, headers, and cookies from server responses.
• HTTP Request Managers - Provides a robust set of tools for configuring and controlling HTTP communication parameters.
• Streaming Transfers - Streams massive request payloads and response bodies directly to disk to prevent memory exhaustion.
• Command-Line HTTP Clients - Includes a terminal-based utility for constructing and sending HTTP requests.
• Command Line Interfaces - Ships a ready-to-run command-line application for executing HTTP commands and managing sessions.
• Interactive Shells - Provides an interactive command-line session for manual API testing and exploration.
• Response Body Streaming - Processes large incoming response bodies in fragments to minimize memory consumption during file downloads.
• HTTP Payload Streaming - Sends file-like objects incrementally from disk to a server to avoid loading entire payloads into memory.
• Request Timeout Management - Enforces global or per-request connection and read timeouts to prevent requests from hanging indefinitely.
• Multipart Form Uploads - Implements capabilities for transmitting files and binary data using the HTTP multipart/form-data standard.
• Persistent Resource Definitions - Allows storing base URLs and credentials in reusable objects to streamline multiple requests to the same service.
• Proxy Server Routing - Routes network traffic through global or per-request proxy servers to control request flow.
• Nested Resource Chaining - Supports hierarchical API paths by chaining resource requests to build complex URLs without manual construction.
• Network Request Logging - Logs HTTP request and response details at configurable verbosity levels to debug API interactions.
• API Explorers - Offers a CLI-based tool for developers to interact with and test API endpoints for debugging.
• Multipart Uploads - Handles client-side encoding of multipart/form-data bodies for file uploads and complex form submissions.
• API Client Development Tools - Simple HTTP and REST client for Ruby.
• API Development - Simple HTTP and REST client.
• Client Libraries - Simple Ruby HTTP client inspired by microframework syntax.
• HTTP Clients - Simple REST client with a microframework-inspired syntax.

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