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= HTTP Client API =

Server side programs often need to grab information via HTTP. There should be an API that makes this as easy as possible.

There are certainly other protocols that deserve support, but each protocol has its own purpose and interface and will be documented separately if it will become part of the stdlib.

==  Requirements/Proposals ==

[[HTTP_Client/A]]

== Prior Art ==

* [http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/ XMLHttpRequest] is already the standard JS API for HTTP.
* [http://www.ejscript.org/products/ejs/doc/api/gen/ejscript/ejs.io-Http.html Here] is an extended HTTP API from Ejscript.
* v8cgi has a [http://code.google.com/p/v8cgi/wiki/API_HTTP HTTP] class
* Helma NG has a [http://dev.helma.org/trac/helma/browser/helma-ng/trunk/modules/helma/httpclient.js helma/httpclient module] ([http://helma.zumbrunn.com/reference/helma.Http.html Helma 1 reference docs]).