Artax is an asynchronous HTTP/1.1 client built on the Amp concurrency framework.
Artax is an asynchronous HTTP/1.1 client. Its API simplifies standards-compliant HTTP resource traversal and RESTful web service consumption without obscuring the underlying protocol. The library manually implements HTTP over TCP sockets; as such it has no dependency on ext/curl.
It allows you to write highly performant code to send and process HTTP requests using completely asynchronous processing.
The library is available at https://github.com/amphp/artax
Features
- Requests asynchronously
- Pools persistent "keep-alive" connections
- Transparently follows redirects
- Decodes gzipped entity bodies
- Exposes raw headers and message data
- Streams entity bodies for managing memory usage with large transfers
- Supports all standard and custom HTTP method verbs
- Simplifies HTTP form submissions
- Implements secure-by-default TLS (https://) with userland support for new PHP 5.6 encryption features in older PHP versions
- Limits connections per-host to avoid IP bans in scraping contexts
- Supports cookies and sessions
- Functions seamlessly behind HTTP proxy servers
