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A Better Erlang HTTP Client
The main OTP library comes with a suite of internet servers and clients called inets, one piece of which is an http client. During some load testing, I found that that http client was blowing up when large numbers of concurrent requests were being issued. What’s more, I found the following ominously unanswered question on the Erlang questions mailing list:
http://www.trapexit.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4402
That was exactly the problem I was seeing. Did some googling, found an alternate, open source http client called ibrowse. It worked great, and I am now seeing the marvelous scalablity for which Erlang is known.
One thing: getting ibrowse is a bit more work than it should be. It’s a part of the jungerl code collection, which, as far as I could tell, I had to check out from cvs. Which meant a trip to SourceForge, and a great deal of confusion. Found the page eventually at:
http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=73688
Happy with it so far…
-Dan M
