Module http_client 

Outbound HTTP/1.1 client.

A minimal synchronous HTTP/1.1 + HTTPS client with no third-party HTTP dependency. TLS is backed by rustls (the same crate used by the server’s inbound TLS stack).

Plain HTTP (always available)

use rust_web_server::http_client::Client;

let resp = Client::new()
    .get("http://httpbin.org/get")
    .header("X-Request-Id", "abc123")
    .timeout_ms(5_000)
    .send()
    .unwrap();

assert!(resp.is_success());
println!("{}", resp.text().unwrap());

HTTPS

Requires the http-client feature (or http2/http3, which already pull in rustls):

[dependencies]
rust-web-server = { version = "17", features = ["http-client"] }

Then use exactly the same API — the scheme in the URL selects the transport.

Async client

Gated on the http2 feature:

use rust_web_server::http_client::AsyncClient;

let resp = AsyncClient::new()
    .get("https://api.example.com/users")
    .header("Authorization", "Bearer tok_…")
    .send()
    .await?;

println!("{}", resp.text()?);

Structs

AsyncClient

Asynchronous HTTP/1.1 client (http2 feature required).

AsyncRequestBuilder

Builder for an async HTTP request.

Client

Synchronous HTTP/1.1 client.

HttpClientError

Error returned by the HTTP client.

RequestBuilder

Builder for a single HTTP request.

Response

HTTP response from the outbound client.