Does anyone know of a common interface over an Http4K `HttpHandler` & the browser fetch API that...

# server

[Rob Elliot]

Does anyone know of a common interface over an Http4K HttpHandler & the browser fetch API that would allow using the same code to make HTTP requests in the browser and the server?

[christophsturm]

ktor has a http client that works on the jvm and in js

[Rob Elliot]

Thanks - I was wondering if the same could be done for http4k or if the async model would be too much of an impedance.

[christophsturm]

i guess the hardest part would be to convince the http4k maintainers to make http4k-core into a multiplatform project

[Rob Elliot]

I was thinking more of a separate multiplatform interface, and implementing it on the serverside with Http4K and on the client side with the fetch API

[Rob Elliot]

But probably copying most (all?) of the Http4K interfaces to do it

[christophsturm]

or you could make it just inspired by http4k, but with suspend

[Peter]

wish they would reevaluate their stance on suspending functions in the main interface now that their concern is no longer valid with 1.6

[Rob Elliot]

What was their concern, and why is it no longer valid?
Never mind, found https://github.com/http4k/http4k/issues/94#issuecomment-961746958