It would be great if response type were something we could pattern-match over

[Trevoke]

So for instance

{:ok, resp = HTTPotionResponse%{}} = HTTPotion.get("www.foo.bar")

It would help us get a lot more value out of this tool.

[valpackett]

You can pattern match on structs.

As for returning an exception instead of a value when connection fails… you're about four years too late with this :) I realize that I probably shouldn't have used exceptions, but back then I thought they were more idiomatic Elixir. I'm not going to commit such huge changes to the public API now.

[Trevoke]

That's what new major versions are for :)

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[valpackett]

Yeah. I don't want to release a new one. I think the API is fine as it is.

[Trevoke]

I can't blame you; it's your project :)

I have in the meanwhile found HTTPoison which seems to behave the way I like, so I think I will use it.

Thank you for entertaining my requests!

[valpackett]

oh wow, they not only replaced ibrowse with hackney, but also did that. Nice :)