libsoup

About

libsoup is an HTTP client/server library for GNOME. It uses GObjects and the glib main loop to integrate well with GNOME applications and also has a synchronous API for use in CLI tools.

Features include:

• Both asynchronous (GMainLoop and callback-based) and synchronous APIs

• Automatic connection caching and reuse.
• TLS support using GnuTLS, OpenSSL, or SChannel (provided by glib-networking).
• Proxy support, including authentication and SSL tunneling (provided by glib-networking).
• Support for HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 (client-only)
• Client support for Digest, NTLM, and Basic authentication
• Server support for Digest and Basic authentication

See the libsoup client-side HOWTO and libsoup server-side HOWTO for an introduction to using the client and server APIs.

Download

You can check out the current development snapshot using:

 git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libsoup.git

Links

• Releases

• Browse git repository

• Reference manual and tutorial for libsoup 3

• Reference manual and tutorial for libsoup 2

• libsoup issue tracker