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7964 :: HTTP(s) Client / Server in chronos

• arnetheduck (orginal) [2021-05-11T08:50:18+02:00] view original

  Hey,

  With the initial Nimbus release out, we're back to working on features - this is good news for chronos, because we've finally been able to put in place some more nice pieces of the puzzle: we now have both a minimal HTTP(S) client and server in beta :)

  Some features:

  • Security first - we will be using the server in Nimbus which along with the rest of the code (eventually) goes through review, audit and scrutiny, being covered by security bounties
  • SSL out of the box, no separate openssl library needed on any platform
  • Cancellation support
  • Initial support for exception effect tracking (more to come)
  • Low memory footprint

  In Nimbus, chronos above all drives the peer-to-peer networking through nim-libp2p - our first uses of the web server is to expose metrics and a REST API in addition to the existing JSON-RPC server. Next up is likely WebSockets support, such that libp2p can learn to interop with browsers more smoothly :)

  If you're looking for something more of a web framework, bung87's been at it with a chronos-based one - scorper - make sure to check that out as well!

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• pietroppeter (orginal) [2021-05-11T10:53:35+02:00] view original

  lots of interesting links, but missing one for chronos itself ;)

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• Rozzamarine (orginal) [2021-06-01T17:12:25+02:00] view original

  I'm probably a little late and probably a little stupid. But could you please provide some minimal example of... say... retrieving Google.com body with chronos ?

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• Rozzamarine (orginal) [2021-06-03T06:44:35+02:00] view original

  Well, looks like no. Nice lib.

  At least I tried, though.

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• arnetheduck (orginal) [2021-06-17T11:17:25+02:00] view original

  import std/uri import chronos, chronos/apps/http/httpclient let response = waitFor fetch(HttpSessionRef.new(), parseUri("https://duckduckgo.com/")) echo bytesToString response.data

  Run

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