Product Decisions This Supports

Build vs. Buy: Choosing rmccue/Requests over building a custom HTTP client saves engineering time and reduces maintenance overhead, leveraging a mature, community-tested solution (3,582 stars) for core HTTP functionality.
Use Cases: Ideal for third-party API integrations, webhook handling, data scraping, and internal service communication where consistent, reliable HTTP interactions across diverse server environments (e.g., cURL vs. fsockopen) are critical.
Roadmap: Enables faster feature delivery by abstracting transport-layer complexities (redirects, timeouts, streaming), allowing teams to prioritize business logic while accommodating future needs via extensible hooks for auth or custom behavior.

When to Consider This Package

Adopt when simplicity, portability, and minimal dependencies are priorities—especially for WordPress plugins, legacy systems, or projects avoiding larger libraries like Guzzle. Suitable for standard HTTP use cases (GET/POST/PUT/DELETE) requiring built-in features like redirects, decompression, and cookie handling.
Avoid if your project already uses Guzzle or requires advanced HTTP/2+ features (e.g., multiplexing, HTTP/3), as this package lacks modern protocol support. The "NOASSERTION" license