attohttpc

Why attohttpc?

This project's goal is to provide a lightweight and simple HTTP client for the Rust ecosystem. The intended use is for projects that have HTTP needs where performance is not critical or when HTTP is not the main purpose of the application. Note that the project still tries to perform well and avoid allocation where possible, but stays away from Rust's asynchronous stack to provide a crate that's as small as possible. Features are provided behind feature flags when possible to allow users to get just what they need. Here are the goals of the project:

Lightweight
Secure
Easy to use
Modular
HTTP/1.1, eventually HTTP/2.0
Use quality crates from the ecosystem (http, url, encoding_rs), not reinventing the wheel.

Features

charsets support for decoding more text encodings than just UTF-8
compress support for decompressing response bodies (default)
json support for serialization and deserialization
tls support for tls connections (default)

Usage

See the examples/ folder in the repository for more use cases.

let (status, headers, body) = attohttpc::post("https://my-api.com/do/something").json(&request)?.send()?;
if status.is_success() {
    let response = body.json()?;
    // ...
}

Current feature set

Query parameters
Request headers
Tls
Automatic redirection
Streaming response body
Text encoding support
Gzip, deflate support
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
serde support behind a feature flag

Features being worked on

File upload, form data
Thorough test suite
Connection: keep-alive
Authentication

License

This project is licensed under the MPL-2.0.