Micro Http is a lightweight and modular HTTP server implementation for Rust.
Built on Tokio, it provides asynchronous HTTP/1.1 handling with streaming bodies, persistent connections and efficient request parsing.
The project also includes Micro Web, a higher-level framework offering routing, middleware, type-safe data extraction and request/response abstractions. The software is currently at an alpha stage, and its APIs may change between releases.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Supports the HTTP/1.1 protocol.
- Provides asynchronous I/O through Tokio.
- Streams request and response bodies.
- Supports chunked transfer encoding and keep-alive connections.
- Uses zero-copy parsing and efficient buffer management where possible.
- Offers flexible routing with path parameters, filters and nested routers.
- Provides type-safe extraction of path, query, form and JSON data.
- Supports middleware and decorators for response transformation.
- Includes structured logging through tracing.
- Provides automatic conversion between handlers, requests and responses.
Website: github.com/foldright/micro-http
Support:
Developer: FoldRight
License: MIT License or Apache License 2.0
Micro Http is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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