feature request: happy eyeballs

httprb / http

HTTP (The Gem! a.k.a. http.rb) - a fast Ruby HTTP client with a chainable API, streaming support, and timeouts

MIT License

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Open midnight-wonderer opened 1 year ago

midnight-wonderer commented 1 year ago

Hey, It would be great if httprb implements RFC 8305, the "Happy Eyeballs".

This will help with:

The connectivity (performance and availability) when multiple IP addresses are returned as the DNS response.
Provides resiliency when something is wrong with IPv6 while still preferring it over IPv4.