Unirest
Languages and libraries
http client libraries
SHOW HN2013
174points
67comments
#93of 1,739 in 2013
Top 6%of 2013 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
14 positive, 22 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 23 critical, out of 62 comments about the project. Thread score -0.17.
Design: 5 for, 9 againstExecution: 1 for, 10 againstIdea: 6 for, 2 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 2 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean, simple, consistent syntax across languages
From 3 comments
Thanks for this. I'm already using Unirest.php to build a client library for my API and Unirest.rb is my obvious choice when I come to build the Ruby client lib. As aroman said,…
joshguthrie on HNI actually used unirest.rb as one of the tools to teach my students about HTTP requests. I loved the clear syntax and found the experience a lot more straight-forward than many…
zampano on HNHeh, platform-independence...I guess that's one way to get them to use your HTTP library, as opposed to the thousand other libs out there to do HTTP. ;) But I like it! In all…
tomphoolery on HN
Useful for learning and teaching HTTP
From 2 comments
I actually used unirest.rb as one of the tools to teach my students about HTTP requests. I loved the clear syntax and found the experience a lot more straight-forward than many…
zampano on HNHeh, platform-independence...I guess that's one way to get them to use your HTTP library, as opposed to the thousand other libs out there to do HTTP. ;) But I like it! In all…
tomphoolery on HN
Objections
Inconsistent APIs and naming across language versions
From 2 comments
Looking at the examples for Node and PHP, those are essentially two different request libs with the same name. That lack of consistency is a problem - at the very least anyone…
onion2k on HNYou really need to make an effort to conform with established naming/casing conventions in each language [1]. For example, your example page should read [2] for .Net. [1]:…
zamalek on HN
PHP version is limited compared to Guzzle
From 2 comments
The PHP version seems to be meh... Gotta do a lot to get us away from Guzzle. http://guzzlephp.org/
Killswitch on HNIt's meh because it's meh... The package is limited... I can do more by taking a few minutes to write my own curl wrapper than add this to my composer.json file, composer install…
Killswitch on HN
Unidiomatic code in Objective-C and PHP (SSL verification disabled)
From 2 comments
Yep things like this, lack of class prefix, and using [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:@"application/json", @"accept", nil] instead of modern literal syntax @{"accept":…
neilkimmett on HNThis doesn't seem to be a good idea ``` curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false); ``` https://github.com/Mashape/unirest-php/blob/master/lib/Unirest/Unirest.php#L98
mediumdeviation on HN
Native libraries already good enough
From 2 comments
As cool (and pretty) as this is, I'm not sure I see the point to using this over each language's best native http client. As someone else said, Python's requests is fantastic, as…
aroman on HNLooks nice - but unfortunately as someone whose day-to-day language is python, I'll give up my requests library [1] when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.…
tfinch on HN
Requests
Unity3D / C# support
From 2 comments
If you could implement this for Unity3d using C# I'd be so happy
hayksaakian on HNThe problem with Unity3D is that you're forced into using their WWW class unless you pay for a professional license (on each of the platforms from which you intend to make…
acron0 on HN
Caching and fuller HTTP support
From 1 comment
why not support proper http including caching
the1 on HN
Streaming response support
From 1 comment
If you have any ideas (I have little experience in building libs like this, but will definitely learn): currently I need a streaming JSON decoder (which handles base64-encoded…
Groxx on HN
Bind to specific IP parameter
From 1 comment
How about a parameter to bind a specific IP?
codexon on HN
Questions
Why choose this over native language HTTP clients?
From 2 comments
As cool (and pretty) as this is, I'm not sure I see the point to using this over each language's best native http client. As someone else said, Python's requests is fantastic, as…
aroman on HNLooks nice - but unfortunately as someone whose day-to-day language is python, I'll give up my requests library [1] when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.…
tfinch on HN
Does the Node version work in browsers via Browserify?
From 1 comment
Interesting - does the Node version work if packaged for the browser i.e. by Browserify? Of course, there would be caveats, but it would seem like that would be very much in the…
btown on HN
Alternatives named
Python requests
From 2 comments
Looks nice - but unfortunately as someone whose day-to-day language is python, I'll give up my requests library [1] when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.…
tfinch on HNAs cool (and pretty) as this is, I'm not sure I see the point to using this over each language's best native http client. As someone else said, Python's requests is fantastic, as…
aroman on HN
Guzzle (PHP)
From 1 comment
The PHP version seems to be meh... Gotta do a lot to get us away from Guzzle. http://guzzlephp.org/
Killswitch on HN
Node request / superagent
From 1 comment
As cool (and pretty) as this is, I'm not sure I see the point to using this over each language's best native http client. As someone else said, Python's requests is fantastic, as…
aroman on HN
AFNetworking
From 1 comment
Totally agree with giving them the benefit of the doubt, hence https://github.com/Mashape/unirest-obj-c/pull/9 I still doubt as much thought has gone into it as a more mature…
neilkimmett on HN
PHP Requests
From 1 comment
PHP Requests is pretty good, too. https://github.com/rmccue/Requests
zackkitzmiller on HN