Net::HTTP

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Ruby standard library HTTP client. The only HTTP client supported by FakeWeb; called out in the talk as having a complicated interface compared to modern alternatives like the HTTP gem.

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library

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Ruby

talk Webmock unmocked

about

Net::HTTP tool

Talk mentions Net::HTTP as FakeWeb's only supported client and as the verbose legacy client that WebMock lets you swap out.

talk Rewrite with confidence

about

Net::HTTP tool

AWS SDK uses Net::HTTP directly; the team overrode its behavior in Ruby to handle S3 downloads while blocking other traffic.

Provenance

Created in: Webmock unmocked — Bartosz Blimke at wroclove.rb 2024 2026-04-17 23:20
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