Ideally, this will get rid of some of our spurious test failures that occur from relying on httpbin.org and will make the test suite faster as we won't be going over the network, we'll just be using localhost (which is still slow but less slow than actually going over the network).
Hyperledger Aries Verifiable Credential Registry (VCR) is a set of application level software components designed to accelerate the adoption of trustworthy entity to entity communications.
Currently the following HTTP clients are supported:
sttp
play-ws
play-ahc-ws-standalone
akka-http
Finagle
requests-scala
http4s
sttp supports multiple backends and that takes care of a large percentage of HTTP clients, but we may still want to support other HTTP clients in the future. I added a few others to the TODO list.
Ideally, this will get rid of some of our spurious test failures that occur from relying on httpbin.org and will make the test suite faster as we won't be going over the network, we'll just be using localhost (which is still slow but less slow than actually going over the network).