Taser

A really simple synchronous wrapper around gun.

Features:

• No frills synchronous API
• Follow redirects automatically
• Various timeout settings
• Deflates gzipped data
• Support for basic auth

Examples:

{ok, StatusCode, RespHeaders, Body} = taser:get(URL).
{ok, StatusCode, RespHeaders, Body} = taser:post(URL, Data).

{ok, StatusCode, RespHeaders, Body} = taser:request(post, URL, Headers, #{
    connect_timeout => 5000,
    response_timeout => 5000,
    follow_redirects => true,
    max_redirects => 5,
    data => <<"Hello world!">>
}).

{ok, StatusCode, RespHeaders, Body} =
    taser:get("http://user:passwd@httpbin.org/basic-auth/user/passwd").

{ok, StatusCode, RespHeaders, Body} =
    taser:post_form("http://httpbin.org/post", #{ key => value }).

TODO:

• Headers as maps/tuples/both?
• Check status on gzip bombs
• Automatically format payloads and inject proper content type (form encoded, json, multipart)
• Max body size
• Send timeout?
• Tests and stuff
• Add ability to bypass URL-parsing by passing a tuple to request/4?