Introduction

Gun is an HTTP client for Erlang/OTP.

Gun supports the HTTP/2, HTTP/1.1 and Websocket protocols.

Prerequisites

Knowledge of Erlang, but also of the HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2 and Websocket protocols is required in order to read this guide.

Supported platforms

Gun is tested and supported on Linux, FreeBSD, Windows and OSX.

Gun is developed for Erlang/OTP 19.0 and newer.

License

Gun uses the ISC License.

Copyright (c) 2013-2018, Loïc Hoguin <[email protected]>

Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any
purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES
WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR
ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES
WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN
ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.

Versioning

Gun uses Semantic Versioning 2.0.0.

Conventions

In the HTTP protocol, the method name is case sensitive. All standard method names are uppercase.

Header names are case insensitive. Gun converts all the header names to lowercase, and expects your application to provide lowercase header names.

The same applies to any other case insensitive value.

Gun 1.3 User Guide

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