www/rubygem-httpclient 2.9.0 MidnightBSD

httpclient gives something like the functionality of libwww-perl (LWP) in Ruby. httpclient formerly known as http-access2.

Features:

\* methods like GET/HEAD/POST/\* via HTTP/1.1.
\* HTTPS(SSL), Cookies, proxy, authentication(Digest, NTLM, Basic), etc.
\* asynchronous HTTP request, streaming HTTP request.
\* by contrast with net/http in standard distribution;
      o Cookies support
      o MT-safe
      o streaming POST (POST with File/IO)
      o Digest auth
      o Negotiate/NTLM auth for WWW-Authenticate (requires net/htlm module)
      o NTLM auth for Proxy-Authenticate (requires Win32/sspi module)
      o extensible with filter interface
      o you dont have to care HTTP/1.1 persistent connection (httpclient cares instead of you)
\* Not supported now
      o Cache
      o Rather advanced HTTP/1.1 usage such as Range, deflate, etc. (of course you can set it in header by yourself)

For more detail, see API document at dev.ctor.org/doc/httpclient/