Jonatan Kłosko jonatanklosko

Using :httpc securely

Introduction

There are many HTTP clients in the Erlang and Elixir ecosystem, in fact OTP itself comes with one included - :httpc.

This raises the question which client to use and whether :httpc is good enough if all you need is a simple request here and there. This notebook explores relevant security concerns and highlights how to address them when using :httpc.

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	<!-- ... -->
	<body class="<%= controller_name %> <%= action_name %>">
	<!-- ... -->
	</body>
	<!-- ... -->

	def all_zeros_at_end(array)
	array.drop_while(&:nonzero?).all?(&:zero?)
	end