o Asynchronous HTTP API for single & parallel request execution
o Keep-Alive and HTTP pipelining support
o Auto-follow 3xx redirects with max depth
o Automatic gzip & deflate decoding
o Streaming response processing
o Streaming file uploads
o HTTP proxy and SOCKS5 support
o Basic Auth & OAuth
o Connection-level & Global middleware support
o HTTP parser via http_parser.rb
o Works wherever EventMachine runs: Rubinius, JRuby, MRI
WWW: https://github.com/igrigorik/em-http-request
PR: ports/163361
Submitted by: Scott Sanders <scott@jssjr.com>
Sponsored by: RideCharge Inc. / Taxi Magic
