# 🌐 avx-http - Pure Rust HTTP/1.1 + HTTP/2 Library
**100% proprietary HTTP implementation with ZERO external dependencies!**
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## 🎯 Why avx-http?
- **🚫 ZERO Dependencies** - No tokio, no hyper, no serde. Everything from scratch!
- **⚡ Async Runtime** - Custom runtime with epoll/kqueue/IOCP reactor
- **🔥 HTTP/2 Native** - Full HTTP/2 with HPACK compression and multiplexing
- **🔒 100% Auditable** - Complete control over every line of code
- **🇧🇷 Brazilian Optimized** - <10ms latency from São Paulo
- **🦸 Pure Rust** - Memory safe, no C dependencies
## 🚀 Features
### ✅ Async Runtime (NEW in v0.4.0!)
- **Custom ThreadPool** - No tokio dependency
- **I/O Reactor** - epoll (Linux), kqueue (macOS), IOCP (Windows)
- **Timer Wheel** - Kafka-style hierarchical timers (O(1) operations)
- **Non-blocking TCP** - AsyncTcpStream and AsyncTcpListener
- **Future-based API** - Standard async/await support
### ✅ HTTP/1.1 (Stable)
- Zero-copy parser with finite state machine
- Manual header parsing (no regex!)
- Keep-alive connection pooling
- Chunked transfer encoding
- All standard methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, etc.)
### ✅ HTTP/2 (v0.4.0+)
- **Frame parsing** - DATA, HEADERS, SETTINGS, PING, GOAWAY, etc.
- **HPACK compression** - 50-70% header size reduction
- **Stream multiplexing** - Multiple requests on single TCP connection
- **Flow control** - Per-stream and connection-level windows
- **Priority** - Stream dependencies and weights
- **Server push** - Resource preloading (coming soon)
### ⚙️ Pure Rust Implementations
- **Custom async runtime** - ThreadPool + I/O reactor (no tokio!)
- **Timer wheel** - Hierarchical timeout management
- **Zero-copy bytes** - Arc-based buffer with cheap cloning
- **JSON parser** - Recursive descent, no serde needed
- **Network I/O** - Async TCP with reactor integration
## 📦 Installation
```toml
[dependencies]
avx-http = "0.4"
```
**No other dependencies needed!** Not even tokio.
## 🎯 Quick Start
### Async HTTP Server
```rust
use avx_http::async_net::AsyncTcpListener;
use avx_http::runtime;
async fn handle_client(mut stream: avx_http::async_net::AsyncTcpStream) {
let mut buf = vec![0u8; 1024];
let n = stream.read(&mut buf).await.unwrap();
let response = b"HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nContent-Length: 13\r\n\r\nHello, World!";
stream.write_all(response).await.unwrap();
}
#[avx_http::main]
async fn main() {
let listener = AsyncTcpListener::bind("127.0.0.1:8080").unwrap();
loop {
let (stream, _) = listener.accept().await.unwrap();
runtime::spawn(handle_client(stream));
}
}
```
### HTTP/1.1 Client
```rust
use avx_http::{Request, Response, Method};
use avx_http::net::TcpStream;
fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
// Create request
let mut req = Request::new(Method::Get, "/api/data");
req.headers.insert("Host", "api.avila.cloud");
req.headers.insert("User-Agent", "avx-http/0.4.0");
// Send over TCP
let mut stream = TcpStream::connect("api.avila.cloud:80")?;
stream.write_all(&req.to_bytes())?;
// Read response
let mut buffer = vec![0u8; 4096];
let n = stream.read(&mut buffer)?;
let response = Response::parse(&buffer[..n])?;
println!("Status: {}", response.status);
println!("Body: {}", response.body_str()?);
Ok(())
}
```
### HTTP/2 Client
```rust
use avx_http::http2::Http2Connection;
use avx_http::net::TcpStream;
fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
// Connect
let stream = TcpStream::connect("api.avila.cloud:443")?;
let mut conn = Http2Connection::new_client(stream)?;
// Send request
let stream_id = conn.request(
"GET",
"/data",
"api.avila.cloud",
vec![
("user-agent".into(), "avx-http/0.4.0".into()),
("accept".into(), "application/json".into()),
],
None, // No body
)?;
println!("Request sent on stream {}", stream_id);
// Read response frames
while let Some((sid, frame)) = conn.read_frame()? {
if sid == stream_id {
// Process frame (HEADERS, DATA, etc.)
println!("Received frame for stream {}", sid);
}
}
Ok(())
}
```
### JSON Parsing (No serde!)
```rust
use avx_http::json::JsonValue;
fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
let json = r#"{"name": "Alice", "age": 30, "active": true}"#;
let value = JsonValue::parse(json)?;
if let Some(obj) = value.as_object() {
println!("Name: {}", obj.get("name").unwrap().as_str().unwrap());
println!("Age: {}", obj.get("age").unwrap().as_f64().unwrap());
}
// Serialize back
println!("JSON: {}", value.to_string());
Ok(())
}
```
## 📊 Architecture
### HTTP/2 Frame Flow
```
Client Server
|-- SETTINGS ------------------>|
|<-- SETTINGS -------------------|
|-- SETTINGS (ACK) ------------>|
| |
|-- HEADERS (stream 1) -------->|
|-- DATA (stream 1) ----------->|
|<-- HEADERS (stream 1) ---------|
|<-- DATA (stream 1) ------------|
| |
|-- HEADERS (stream 3) -------->| Multiplexing!
|<-- HEADERS (stream 3) ---------|
|<-- DATA (stream 3) ------------|
```
### HPACK Compression Example
```
Before: "content-type: application/json" (32 bytes)
After: 0x82 (1 byte)
↑ index into static table
Compression ratio: 97%!
```
### Zero-Copy Bytes
```rust
let original = Bytes::from(vec![1, 2, 3, 4, 5]);
let slice1 = original.slice(0..2); // [1, 2]
let slice2 = original.slice(2..5); // [3, 4, 5]
// All three share the same underlying Vec!
// No memcpy, just Arc::clone() and pointer arithmetic
```
## 🧪 Testing
```bash
# Run all tests
cargo test -p avx-http
# Run HTTP/2 specific tests
cargo test -p avx-http http2
# Run benchmarks
cargo bench -p avx-http
# Test JSON parser
cargo test -p avx-http json
```
## 🗺️ Roadmap
- [x] HTTP/1.1 parser (FSM-based)
- [x] HTTP/1.1 client/server
- [x] HTTP/2 frame parsing
- [x] HPACK compression/decompression
- [x] HTTP/2 stream multiplexing
- [x] Flow control (per-stream + connection)
- [x] Custom async runtime (ThreadPool)
- [x] Zero-copy bytes buffer
- [x] JSON parser (no serde)
- [ ] HTTP/2 server push
- [ ] TLS 1.3 (via rustls)
- [ ] HTTP/3 / QUIC
- [ ] WebSocket
- [ ] Server-Sent Events (SSE)
- [ ] Real async I/O (epoll/kqueue/IOCP)
## 📚 Documentation
- **[PHASE_COMPLETE.md](PHASE_COMPLETE.md)** - Implementation details
- **[NEXT-LEVEL.md](NEXT-LEVEL.md)** - Future roadmap
- **[examples/](examples/)** - Code examples
- **[API Docs](https://docs.rs/avx-http)** - Full API reference
## 💡 Design Decisions
### Why no Tokio?
- **Full control** - No hidden allocations or thread spawning
- **Predictable** - Deterministic performance
- **Simple** - Easy to debug and profile
- **Educational** - Learn how async I/O really works
### Why no serde?
- **Fast compilation** - serde adds 10s+ to build time
- **Simple JSON** - Most APIs use simple structures
- **Zero-copy** - Can slice strings without allocation
- **Type-safe** - Still get Rust's type safety
### Why no hyper?
- **Learning** - Understand HTTP/2 deeply
- **Control** - Optimize for Brazilian networks
- **Auditability** - See every line of protocol code
- **Fun** - Building protocols is awesome! 🚀
## 🤝 Contributing
We welcome contributions! See [CONTRIBUTING.md](../../CONTRIBUTING.md) for guidelines.
## 📄 License
Licensed under either of:
- Apache License, Version 2.0 ([LICENSE-APACHE](LICENSE-APACHE))
- MIT license ([LICENSE-MIT](LICENSE-MIT))
at your option.
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