# HTTP Client

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/http-client/93897>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [April 13, 2006, 1:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/http-client/93897 "2006-04-13T13:32:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![pete](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/3ab097/32.png) [@pete](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pete)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 1:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/http-client/93897/1 "2006-04-13T13:32:44Z")

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Hi,

One of the projects I’m working on that I’m currently porting from Java  
needs to be able to access websites which support cookies and other fun  
features.

In Java I used the Apache HTTP Client library and it worked really well.  
I was wondering if there was a similar library around for Ruby? I’ve  
done some googling but all I found were tools that were last updated  
years ago - so far nothing current.

Is there a fully feature http client for Ruby?

Thanks in advance!

Kind Regards,

Peter P.

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**Author:** ![pete](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/3ab097/32.png) [@pete](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pete)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 5:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/http-client/93897/2 "2006-04-13T17:50:20Z")

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On Apr 13, 2006, at 7:32 AM, Pete wrote:

> I was wondering if there was a similar library around for Ruby? I’ve
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> Peter P.
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> Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/).

[http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/net/http/rdoc/](http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/net/http/rdoc/)  
[http://rubyforge.org/projects/mechanize](http://rubyforge.org/projects/mechanize)