Is there a maintained alternative solving this problem?

[matkoniecz]

Is someone aware of alternative to this abandoned project?

(and yes, noone is obligated to maintain their open source project - but I prefer to use projects which are not dead, and while a bit offtopic it is not like this issue blocks or disturbs development)

Java is bad at HTTP. Really bad. The tools provided are functionally broken. Unfortunately, by extension, Kotlin is also bad at HTTP. Yet, more and more, the need to interact with APIs and perform basic HTTP requests shows up in programs, but the broken tools in Java make it a big fuss. This isn’t how it should be.

To combat this, libraries like Unirest have popped up, but they introduce massive amounts of overhead to just make a simple GET request.

khttp attempts to solve this problem, by mimicking the Python requests module. khttp uses only the org.json.json library and native Java. There’s nothing else. No bullshit.

from https://khttp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ is very promising and I am looking exactly for something like this