HttpClient

httpclient is a user-friendly http client in Rust. Where possible, it closely mimics the reqwest API. Why build a new http client?

• httpclient::{Request, Response} objects are serde-serializable, which enables record/replay functionality. See the example below to see it in action.
• httpclient provides an API for user-extensible middleware. Built-in middleware includes redirect, retry, logging, and record/replay.
• httpclient provides a built-in Error type that can return the Http request, which includes the status code, headers, and response body.
• httpclient provides convenience methods that reqwest does not support. The most important is the IntoFuture implementation, which awaits both the request and the response body, which simplifies the scenario where you want to return the request body even in error cases.

Note on Http 1.0

http was recently upgraded to 1.0. However, hyper_rustls still depends on 0.2.x. We are waiting for hyper_rustls before bumping our own dependency.

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() {
    let mut client = httpclient::Client::new()
        // With this middleware, the script will only make the request once. After that, it replays from the filesystem
        // and does not hit the remote server. The middleware has different modes to ignore recordings (to force refresh)
        // and to prevent new requests (for running a test suite).
        // The recordings are sanitized to hide secrets.
        .with_middleware(httpclient::middleware::RecorderMiddleware::new())
        ;
    let res = client.get("https://www.jsonip.com/")
        .header("secret", "foo")
        .await
        .unwrap();
    let res = res.text().unwrap();
    
    let res = client.get("https://www.jsonip.com/")
        .header("secret", "foo")
        .send()
        .await
        .unwrap();
    // By using `send()`, we now can separately await the request body.
    let res = res.text().await.unwrap();
}

Roadmap

• Hide secrets in Recorder. Hash & Eq checks for requests must respect hidden values.
• Ensure it builds on wasm32-unknown-unknown
• Sanitize "sessid" in json