output.txt

~ % ruby travis.rb
Rehearsal ----------------------------------------------------------------
curl /repos/travis-ci/travis   0.000000   0.000000   0.020000 (  0.890858)
em   /repos/travis-ci/travis   0.010000   0.000000   0.010000 (  0.449796)
typh /repos/travis-ci/travis   0.010000   0.000000   0.010000 (  0.459140)
http /repos/travis-ci/travis   0.000000   0.000000   0.000000 (  0.450288)
raws /repos/travis-ci/travis   0.010000   0.010000   0.020000 (  0.427803)
------------------------------------------------------- total: 0.060000sec

                                   user     system      total        real
curl /repos/travis-ci/travis   0.000000   0.000000   0.010000 (  0.456998)
em   /repos/travis-ci/travis   0.000000   0.010000   0.010000 (  0.415069)
typh /repos/travis-ci/travis   0.000000   0.000000   0.000000 (  0.120468)
http /repos/travis-ci/travis   0.000000   0.000000   0.000000 (  0.113598)
raws /repos/travis-ci/travis   0.010000   0.000000   0.010000 (  0.428059)

travis.rb

require 'net/http/persistent'
require 'em-http-request'
require 'typhoeus'
require 'benchmark'

api = URI("https://api.travis-ci.org")

Benchmark.bmbm(20) do |res|

  res.report("curl /repos/travis-ci/travis") do
    system "curl -s -q -o /dev/null https://api.travis-ci.org/repos/travis-ci/travis"
  end

  res.report("em   /repos/travis-ci/travis") do
    EM.run do
      ehttp = EM::HttpRequest.new(api.to_s + "/repos/travis-ci/travis").get
      ehttp.callback { EM.stop }
      ehttp.errback { raise }
    end
  end

  res.report("typh /repos/travis-ci/travis") do
    Typhoeus.get("https://api.travis-ci.org/repos/travis-ci/travis")
  end

  res.report("http /repos/travis-ci/travis") do
    http = Net::HTTP::Persistent.new
    http.request(api, Net::HTTP::Get.new("/repos/travis-ci/travis"))
  end

  # N.B. This version is probably slow due to line oriented buffering, etc.
  res.report("raws /repos/travis-ci/travis") do
    sock = OpenSSL::SSL::SSLSocket.new(TCPSocket.new('api.travis-ci.org', 443))
    sock.connect
    sock.write "GET /repos/travis-ci/travis HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: api.travis-ci.org\r\n\r\n"
    cl = 0
    while line = sock.readline
      if line =~ /^Content-Length: (\d+)\s*$/
        cl = $1.to_i
        break
      end
    end
    line = sock.readline until line == "\r\n"
    sock.read cl
    sock.close
  end
end

You want follow location:

Typhoeus.get("https://api.travis-ci.org/repos/travis-ci/travis", followlocation: true)

@i0rek huh? it's a 200 if you use https...

@raggi sorry nevermind!