The HTTP Core package provides a minimal low-level HTTP client, which does one thing only. Sending HTTP requests. It does not provide any high level model abstractions over the API, does not handle redirects, multipart uploads, building authentication headers, transparent HTTP caching, URL parsing, session cookie handling, content or charset decoding, handling JSON, environment based configuration defaults, or any of that Jazz. Some things HTTP Core does do: * Sending HTTP requests. * Provides both sync and async interfaces. * Supports HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2. * Async backend support for asyncio and trio. * Automatic connection pooling. * HTTP(S) proxy support.
Binary packages can be installed with the high-level tool pkgin (which can be installed with pkg_add) or pkg_add(1) (installed by default). The NetBSD packages collection is also designed to permit easy installation from source.
The pkg_admin audit command locates any installed package which has been mentioned in security advisories as having vulnerabilities.
Please note the vulnerabilities database might not be fully accurate, and not every bug is exploitable with every configuration.
Problem reports, updates or suggestions for this package should be reported with send-pr.