Issue by jrudolph Wednesday Feb 11, 2015 at 13:54 GMT Originally opened as https://github.com/akka/akka/issues/16856

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It would be convenient if akka-http would provide common high-level HTTP functionality similar to what a browser supports in its backend. This is a collection of all the things that would belong into this category. This is a metaticket and each subfeature has its own ticket.

• connection pooling and configurable request queuing (provided by host-level API #15681)
• request-level API (#15906)
• automatic redirection (#15990)
• automatic retry attempts (#16852)
• try different IP addresses on retries (#16827)
• HTTP proxy support (for HTTP: #16853, for HTTPS: #16153)
• authentication data store (#16854)
• cookie store (#16855)
• response routing DSL (#15909)
• request building should be polished and documented (https://github.com/akka/akka/issues/18550)
• optional: response decompression (https://github.com/akka/akka/issues/16813)
• optional: Add support for OAuth authentication #16857