Sending an HTTP request

Clojure:
Sending an HTTP request

How to:

In Clojure, you can send HTTP requests using the clj-http client.

First, add the dependency to your project.clj:

[clj-http "3.12.3"]

Now, let’s send a GET request:

(require '[clj-http.client :as client])

(let [response (client/get "http://httpbin.org/get")]
  (println response))

Output sample:

{:status 200, :headers {...}, :body "..."}

To post data:

(let [response (client/post "http://httpbin.org/post" {:form-params {:key "value"}})]
  (println response))

Deep Dive

Sending HTTP requests isn’t new. It’s as old as the web itself. Clojure, being a modern Lisp, has several libs to make HTTP requests. clj-http is a popular one, but others like http-kit or Clojure’s core clj-http.client exist.

clj-http leans on the Apache HttpComponents Client for Java under the hood. It’s versatile but can feel Java-heavy. An alternative, http-kit, is more lightweight and Clojure-idiomatic but less feature-rich.

When you send HTTP requests, you’re doing so over TCP/IP, which frames your requests according to a well-established protocol. This universal standard lets you interact with practically any web service out there.

Clojure:Sending an HTTP request

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Sending an HTTP request