biohttp: Normalized HTTP Transport with Circuit Breaking and Caching

Web service calls return a normalized result value instead of raising a condition, so a caller branches on data rather than on an error handler. Transport failure, a non-success status code, and an unreadable response body are reported as three distinct outcomes. Per-host circuit breaking, retry with a transient-failure predicate, optional throttling, redacted request headers, and a success-only cache come as defaults. Many questions to one source can be asked as a single batch, where only the entries the cache is missing reach the network. Service-specific knowledge is left to the client packages built on top. The circuit breaker is the pattern described in Nygard (2018, ISBN:9781680502398).

Version:	0.1.2
Depends:	R (≥ 4.0)
Imports:	cachem, curl, httr2, jsonlite, rlang, tools
Suggests:	knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), webfakes, withr
Published:	2026-09-03
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.biohttp (may not be active yet)
Author:	Samuel Bharti [aut, cre, cph]
Maintainer:	Samuel Bharti <samuelbharti.io at gmail.com>
BugReports:	https://github.com/samuelbharti/biohttp/issues
License:	MIT + file LICENSE
URL:	https://github.com/samuelbharti/biohttp, https://www.samuelbharti.com/biohttp/
NeedsCompilation:	no
Language:	en-US
Citation:	biohttp citation info
Materials:	README, NEWS
CRAN checks:	biohttp results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	biohttp.html , biohttp.pdf
Vignettes:	Writing a client against biohttp (source, R code)

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Package source:	biohttp_0.1.2.tar.gz
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