Faraday is an HTTP client lib that provides a common interface over many adapters (such as Net::HTTP) and embraces the concept of Rack middleware when processing the request/response cycle.

For talking to APIs in a secure way (HTTPS), see Setting up SSL certificates.

Apart from bundled request/response middleware that comes with Faraday, these 3rd-party project provide extra middleware:

• faraday_middleware
• faraday-stack

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