nim_http

An alternate http client for nim why?

• add unix socket support
• add ability to recv stream data in sync that doesn't require the body to finish
• sync and async api

Todo

• http2 support
• add more tests
• add multipart support
• add more examples
• add proxy support
• add send body
• add send body in chunks
• add ssl support
• add unix socket support
• add data stream and iter chunk support
• convert code to multisync
• add http error raising (?) probably not

Usage

import nim-client

proc main() =
  let client: HttpClient
  let resp = client.fetch(HttpGet, "https://httpbin.org/get")
  
  case resp.httpCode:
  of Http200:
    # data iterator 
    for data in resp.body():
        echo data
    ## get body all at once  
    # resp.body()
    ## data stream
    ## happens all at once
    #resp.recvStream()
    ## then this happens
    #resp.stream.readAll()
  else:
    raise 
 
proc mainAsync() {.async.} =
  let client: AsyncHttpClient
  let resp = await client.fetch(HttpGet, "https://httpbin.org/get")
  for data in resp.body():
    echo data

when isMainModule:
  main()
  mainAsync()