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Many people will find `hyper` when searching for a Rust HTTP crate. Reqwest is not nearly so easy to find unless you know what you are looking for, but is what a lot of people looking for a rust http library need. Let's point them in the right direction. I recently came across a new Rust user on Reddit who had found the hyper crate, but was trying to use libcurl bindings to make http requests because they hadn't managed to find reqwest.
hyper
A fast and correct HTTP implementation for Rust.
Get started by looking over the guides.
Hyper is a relatively low-level library, if you are looking for simple high-level HTTP client, then you may wish to consider reqwest, which is built on top of this library.
Overview
hyper is a fast, safe HTTP implementation written in and for Rust.
hyper offers both an HTTP client and server which can be used to drive complex web applications written entirely in Rust.
hyper makes use of "async IO" (non-blocking sockets) via the Tokio and Futures crates.
Be aware that hyper is still actively evolving towards 1.0, and is likely
to experience breaking changes before stabilising. However, this mostly now
around the instability of Future and async. The rest of the API is rather
stable now. You can also see the
issues in the upcoming milestones.
Contributing
To get involved, take a look at CONTRIBUTING.
There are two main avenues for real-time chatting about hyper: a Gitter room and irc.mozilla.org/hyper. They are mirrored, so choose whichever format you prefer.
License
hyper is provided under the MIT license. See LICENSE.