I really wanted to use khttp, but it doesn't work

# http4k

[Zachary Siegel]

I really wanted to use khttp, but it doesn't work

[James Richardson]

I guess you are talking about http4k ? If you are, it definitely does work, but it's tricky to provide advice to you from that description of the problem you're having. If you could explain a bit more about what you had a problem with, I'm sure that people here could help.
Lots of people find http4k a reliable, predictable, and productive library for creating http clients and servers, with some simple but powerful core abstractions.

[Andrew O'Hara]

It definitely does work; it just works quite differently from what many developers are used to.

If you can tell us what the issue is, and/or give us a minimal reproducible code sample, we can point you in the right direction.

[Zachary Siegel]

lol no i was talking about khttp which is another library which requires you to use some jvm system override to let it use some esoteric reflection api from old jdk versions

[Zachary Siegel]

thus i must use http4k, which is really overkill for what i want, which is just an http client

[Andrew O'Hara]

Ah. Well, if you want the most lightweight solution, java 11 has its own HttpClient, which is quite usable. As for http4k, you only need the 1 MB http4k-core module, which allows you to use the java 11 HttpClient, or the java 8 HttpUrlConnection under the hood. No need to bring in apache or okhttp as the backend for your http client.