generic-async-http-client 0.1.1

async HTTP(S) client
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A generic async HTTP request create.

It is meant to be a thin wrapper around various HTTP clients
and handles TLS, serialisation and parsing.

The main goal is to allow binaries (that pull in some libraries that make use of a HTTP client)
to **specify what implementation should be used**.

And if there is a **Proxy**. If not specified auto detection is performed by looking at `HTTP_PROXY`.

# Features
You need to specify via features what crates are used to the actual work.

|feature flag|Meaning|
|---|---|
|use_hyper|Use [hyper](https://crates.io/crates/hyper) for HTTP|
|use_async_h1|Use [async_h1](https://crates.io/crates/async_h1) for HTTP|
|rustls|Add support for HTTPS via [rustls](https://crates.io/crates/rustls)|
|proxies|Add support for Socks5 and HTTP proxy|

Without anything specified you will end up with *No HTTP backend was selected*.
If you use this crate for a library, please [reexport](https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/features.html#dependency-features) the apropriate features.

# Motivation

Rust offers different async runtimes that - on a high level - offer the same thing: asyncrounes functions for files, sockets and so on.

So if you write a lib and need some basic stiff (like an http client) you sometimes have to make choices that are not what your crates users would have liked.
For example:
I wrote a [webserver](https://github.com/User65k/flash_rust_ws) based on hyper and wanted to add ACME.
A crate I found did what I needed but used async-h1 and async-std. While that worked, it did increase the binary size and crates I depend on by a good amount.

So I wrote this. You can specify which backend to use.
In the Webserver case, using tokio which is already a dependency VS async-std did lead to 81 less crates and a 350kB smaller binary.
Using (and [async-acme](https://crates.io/crates/async-acme)):
```
[profile.release]
lto = "fat"
codegen-units = 1
```

Also for http clients: there should be a way to add a proxy for all libs that use it.

# Plans

1. Add native_tls as a TLS choice
2. Add Sessions - to make multiple requests more efficient
3. Add a cookie jar for the sessions
4. Alow a Body to be streamed from a server
5. Alow a Body to be streamed to a server