A package which allows Downloads.jl to be used as a backend for HTTP client requests when using the HTTP.jl package.

Usage:

import HTTPDownloads

HTTPDownloads.set_downloads_backend()

# Now use HTTP.jl as normal
using HTTP
HTTP.get("https://httpbingo.julialang.org/get")

HTTPDownloads works by modifying the default HTTP.stack() to intercept requests before they get to HTTP's ConnectionPoolLayer.

To be a feature-complete drop in replacement, this means it should support all keyword arguments within the HTTP layers ConnectionPoolLayer, TimeoutLayer and StreamLayer. However, not all of these are implemented yet (see the source for request())