Deprecated

In favour of
http-conduit

http-wget

Provide a simple HTTP client interface by wrapping the wget command line tool. (deprecated)

http://github.com/snoyberg/http-wget/tree/master

Latest on Hackage:0.6.2.3

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BSD-3-Clause licensed and maintained by Michael Snoyman

This provides the simplest interface I could imagine to making HTTP requests. It supports GET and POST parameters. Since it simply wraps the WGET program, there are no library dependencies, and it automatically gets HTTPS.