Artax is an asynchronous HTTP client for PHP based on Amp. Its API simplifies standards-compliant HTTP resource traversal and RESTful web service consumption without obscuring the underlying protocol. The library manually implements HTTP over TCP sockets; as such it has no dependency on ext/curl.

• Requests asynchronously for full single-threaded concurrency
• Pools persistent keep-alive connections
• Transparently follows redirects
• Decodes gzipped entity bodies
• Exposes headers and message data
• Streams entity bodies for memory management with large transfers
• Supports all standard and custom HTTP method verbs
• Simplifies HTTP form submissions
• Implements secure-by-default TLS (https://)
• Supports cookies and sessions
• Functions seamlessly behind HTTP proxies

• Model all code as closely as possible to the relevant HTTP protocol RFCs
• Implement an HTTP/1.1 client built on raw socket streams with no libcurl dependency

This package can be installed as a Composer dependency.

composer require amphp/artax

Documentation is bundled within this repository in the docs directory.

More extensive code examples reside in the examples directory.

amphp/artax follows the semver semantic versioning specification like all other amphp packages.

If you discover any security related issues, please email [email protected] instead of using the issue tracker.

The MIT License (MIT). Please see LICENSE for more information.