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The HTTP package supports client-side web programming in Haskell. It lets
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you set up HTTP connections, transmitting requests and processing the
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responses coming back, all from within the comforts of Haskell. It's
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dependent on the network package to operate, but other than that, the
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implementation is all written in Haskell.
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A basic API for issuing single HTTP requests + receiving responses is
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provided. On top of that, a session-level abstraction is also on offer (the
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BrowserAction monad); it taking care of handling the management of
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persistent connections, proxies, state (cookies) and authentication
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credentials required to handle multi-step interactions with a web server.
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The representation of the bytes flowing across is extensible via the use of
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a type class, letting you pick the representation of requests and responses
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that best fits your use. Some pre-packaged, common instances are provided
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for you (ByteString, String).
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