/buoy

High-Performance Erlang HTTP 1.1 Client

Primary LanguageErlangMIT LicenseMIT

buoy

High-Performance Erlang HTTP 1.1 Client

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Disclaimer:

This HTTP client has been designed for HTTP 1.1 with keep-alive. For performance reasons, it only implements a subset of RFC2616.

Unsupported Features:

  • Doesn't accept an arbitrary number of new lines in headers
  • Doesn't accept random capitalization of content-length header
  • Doesn't protect against malicious servers
  • Doesn't support chunked encoding

API

Function Index

Examples

1> buoy_app:start().
{ok,[granderl,shackle,buoy]}

2> Url = buoy_utils:parse_url(<<"http://example.com">>).
{buoy_url,<<"example.com">>,<<"example.com">>,<<"/">>,80,
          http}

3> ok = buoy_pool:start(Url, [{pool_size, 1}]).
ok

4> {ok, Resp} = buoy:get(Url).
{ok,{buoy_resp,done,
               <<"<!doctype html>\n<html>\n<head>\n    <title>Example Domain</title>\n\n    <meta charset=\"utf-8\" />\n  "...>>,
               1270,
               [<<"Cache-Control: max-age=604800">>,
                <<"Content-Type: text/html">>,
                <<"Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 14:48:25 GMT">>,
                <<"Etag: \"359670651+gzip+ident\"">>,
                <<"Expires: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 14:48:25 GMT">>,
                <<"Last-Modified: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 23:54:35 GMT">>,
                <<"Server: ECS (cpm/F9D5)">>,<<"Vary: Accept-Encoding">>,
                <<"X-Cache: HIT">>,<<"Content-Length: 1270">>],
               <<"OK">>,200}}

5> {ok, Headers} = buoy_protocol:headers(Resp).
{ok,[{<<"Cache-Control">>,<<"max-age=604800">>},
     {<<"Content-Type">>,<<"text/html">>},
     {<<"Date">>,<<"Mon, 20 Mar 2017 14:48:25 GMT">>},
     {<<"Etag">>,<<"\"359670651+gzip+ident\"">>},
     {<<"Expires">>,<<"Mon, 27 Mar 2017 14:48:25 GMT">>},
     {<<"Last-Modified">>,<<"Fri, 09 Aug 2013 23:54:35 GMT">>},
     {<<"Server">>,<<"ECS (cpm/F9D5)">>},
     {<<"Vary">>,<<"Accept-Encoding">>},
     {<<"X-Cache">>,<<"HIT">>},
     {<<"Content-Length">>,<<"1270">>}]}

Pool Options

Name Type Default Description
backlog_size pos_integer() 1024 maximum number of concurrent requests per connection
pool_size pos_integer() 16 number of connections
pool_strategy random | round_robin random connection selection strategy
reconnect boolean() true reconnect closed connections
reconnect_time_max pos_integer() | infinity 120000 reconnect maximum time
reconnect_time_min pos_integer() 500 reconnect minimum time

Tests

make dialyzer
make elvis
make eunit
make xref

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2016-2017 Louis-Philippe Gauthier

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