This port provides a common interface for using HTTP clients. Many adapters can be developed to use different technologies.

Its main functionalities are:

• HTTP, HTTPS and HTTP/2 support

• Mutual TLS

• Body encoding/decoding

• Request/response exchange

• Form submissions

• Cookie management

• File uploading/downloading

Install the Dependency

This module is not meant to be used directly. You should include an Adapter implementing this feature (as http_client_jetty) in order to create HTTP clients.

Create an HTTP client

You create an HTTP Client instance with default options as follows: