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[[webflux-client]]
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= WebClient
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:page-section-summary-toc: 1
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Spring WebFlux includes a client to perform HTTP requests with. `WebClient` has a
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functional, fluent API based on Reactor, see xref:web-reactive.adoc#webflux-reactive-libraries[Reactive Libraries],
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which enables declarative composition of asynchronous logic without the need to deal with
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threads or concurrency. It is fully non-blocking, it supports streaming, and relies on
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the same xref:web/webflux/reactive-spring.adoc#webflux-codecs[codecs] that are also used to encode and
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decode request and response content on the server side.
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`WebClient` needs an HTTP client library to perform requests with. There is built-in
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support for the following:
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* {reactor-github-org}/reactor-netty[Reactor Netty]
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* {java-api}/java.net.http/java/net/http/HttpClient.html[JDK HttpClient]
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* https://github.com/jetty-project/jetty-reactive-httpclient[Jetty Reactive HttpClient]
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* https://hc.apache.org/index.html[Apache HttpComponents]
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* Others can be plugged via `ClientHttpConnector`.
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