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<h1 class="lined-header"><span>Introduction</span></h1>

<div class="paragraph"><p>Gun is an Erlang HTTP client with support for HTTP/1.1, SPDY and Websocket.</p></div>
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<h2 id="_prerequisites">Prerequisites</h2>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>Knowledge of Erlang, but also of the HTTP/1.1, SPDY and Websocket
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<div class="paragraph"><p>Gun is tested and supported on Linux.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Gun is developed for Erlang 18+.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Gun may be compiled on earlier Erlang versions with small source code
modifications but there is no guarantee that it will work as intended.</p></div>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>In the HTTP protocol, the method name is case sensitive. All standard
method names are uppercase.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Header names are case insensitive. Gun converts all the header names
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<div class="paragraph"><p>The same applies to any other case insensitive value.</p></div>
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