Slightly higher level interface on top of Net::HTTP, similar to perl's LWP::UserAgent I think. Does some higher level handshaking, like supporting ntlm authentication, and simpler stuff like handling redirects. Also reuses connection as much as possible.

Usage is like:

require 'net/httpclient'

client = Net::HTTPClient.new
puts client.get('http://www.google.com.au')NOTE: this project is no longer maintained. See instead the httpclient (formerly httpaccess2) library at http://dev.ctor.org/http-access2.