Furl - Lightning fast HTTP client library
2010-12-05
First, LWP is very good HTTP client library. It's de-facto standard in Perl5 world.
But, it's bit slow if you are using for RPC over HTTP.
For example, KyotoTycoon supports RPC over HTTP.
Synopsis code is here.
use Furl; my $furl = Furl::HTTP->new( agent => 'MyGreatUA/2.0', timeout => 10, ); my ($minor_version, $code, $msg, $headers, $body) = $furl->request( method => 'GET', host => 'example.com', port => 80, path => '/' ); # or # Accept-Encoding is supported but optional $furl = Furl->new( headers => [ 'Accept-Encoding' => 'gzip' ], ); my $body = $furl->get('http://example.com/some/compressed');
Furl does not requires XS(XS part exists, but optional.).
WWW::Curl is very fast too.
But, it depends on libcurl. It's bit hard to install.
regards,