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Iris is the HTTP client vane.

Iris gets passed HTTP requests, makes the request to the specified URL, and returns the HTTP response.

## Sections

[Data Types](/docs/arvo/iris/data-types) - Reference documentation of the data types used by Iris.

[API Reference](/docs/arvo/eyre/tasks) - The `task`s Iris takes and the `gift`s it returns.

[Example](/docs/arvo/iris/example) - An example of using Iris to fetch a remote HTTP resource.