… which lets us do that:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
scheme@(guile-user)> ,use(web client)
scheme@(guile-user)> (define p (open-socket-for-uri "https://guix.gnu.org" #:flags O_NONBLOCK))
scheme@(guile-user)> (http-get "https://guix.gnu.org" #:port p)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Thoughts?

Ludo’.