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Top 23 Rust HTTP Projects
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Project mention: I built a shopping search engine in Rust that you talk to in plain words | dev.to | 2026-06-16
The whole site is Rust (axum) rendering HTML with Maud, a compile-time template macro. No JS framework, no hydration, no API layer — handlers return HTML strings.
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AppSignal
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Project mention: Hurl vs Postman: Git-Friendly API Testing With Proxy-Aware Egress (2026) | dev.to | 2026-06-12
Hurl ships as a native binary.
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I built an uptime checker in Rust. Like most people, I used reqwest first. Then I dropped it and moved down to raw hyper.
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rathole
A lightweight and high-performance reverse proxy for NAT traversal, written in Rust. An alternative to frp and ngrok.
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Project mention: I benchmarked my language's native Postgres ORM against SQLAlchemy: ~8 faster reads, 5.7 less memory — and where it ties | dev.to | 2026-08-12
Hardware: Intel Core Ultra 7 155H (16 cores), 64 GB RAM, Windows 11 + Docker 29.2.1 (WSL2). Sustained 30s at concurrency 10, measured with oha. Median of 3 runs (local runs swing ±10% with CPU thermals and cache state).
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Building a REST API with Warp
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> ngirx and granian are my favorite technologies to work with!
I had the same initial thought, but I was skimming the page and came across this line:
> Then, see how to deploy a Flask+HTMX app via Granian, wire it into NGINX, and ensure automatic startups with systemd.
So I've just discovered that https://github.com/emmett-framework/granian exists...
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Apache Iggy seems like a project with a lot of momentum: https://github.com/apache/iggy
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Project mention: Sōzune – a reverse proxy built on Sōzu, with Traefik-style autodiscovery | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-19
Hi HN,
Sōzune is a reverse proxy I've been building on top of Sōzu (https://github.com/sozu-proxy/sozu), the Rust proxy from Clever Cloud. Sōzu is fast and reload-without-downtime, but it's a low-level building block — you talk to it over a socket and
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In practice, this machinery is already available in the ntex-service crate. Its ServiceChain acts as a typed builder for pipelines, deferring composition until the chain is finalized. The resulting Pipeline is a distinct type because it encodes an additional constraint over the entire service graph: readiness.
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> As an example, I still do not understand why simple HTTP crates require more than 50 to 70 dependencies to execute a simple GET call...
Looking at ureq [0], for example, its direct non-build/non-dev dependencies are (counting duplicates):
- base64
- flate2 (4 transitive dependencies)
- log
- percent-encoding
- rustls (26 transitive dependencies)
- rustls-pki-types (1 transitive dependency)
- ureq-proto (7 transitive dependencies)
- utf-8
- webpki-roots (2 transitive dependencies)
The vast majority of the raw dependency count comes from Rustls and related crates, and I'd imagine reimplementing a TLS stack would be somewhat out of scope for an HTTP crate. I'm not sure there's much room for substantial reductions in dependency count otherwise.
[0]: https://github.com/algesten/ureq
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Project mention: Show HN: I'm rewriting a web server written in Rust for speed and ease of use | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-10-21
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cherrybomb
Stop half-done APIs! Cherrybomb is a CLI tool that helps you avoid undefined user behaviour by auditing your API specifications, validating them and running API security tests.
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Project mention: One year of Roto, a compiled scripting language for Rust | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-31
Congratulations terts and team. In November’25 we had pleasure to interview you about roto and Nlnetlabs [1]. Happy how far it has come already. Before the summer ends We’ll implement support for it in rama [2] to support scripted services and anything else you might want! Looking forward to that day. Until then, keep it up!
[1]: https://netstack.fm/#episode-14
[2]: https://github.com/plabayo/rama
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Rust HTTP discussion
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reqwest: An easy and powerful Rust HTTP Client
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WASI 0.3.1
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I benchmarked my language's native Postgres ORM against SQLAlchemy: ~8 faster reads, 5.7 less memory — and where it ties
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Benchmarkée el ORM Postgres nativo de mi lenguaje contra SQLAlchemy: ~8 más rápido en reads, 5.7 menos memoria — y dónde empata
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Show HN: New TLS 1.3 (RFC-8446) implementation written in Rust
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4 things writing an HTTP prober in Rust taught me
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Sōzune – a reverse proxy built on Sōzu, with Traefik-style autodiscovery
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Index
What are some of the best open-source HTTP projects in Rust? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | axum | 27,012 |
| 2 | hurl | 19,185 |
| 3 | hyper | 16,307 |
| 4 | rathole | 14,109 |
| 5 | reqwest | 11,812 |
| 6 | oha | 10,523 |
| 7 | warp | 10,365 |
| 8 | WASI | 5,783 |
| 9 | granian | 5,595 |
| 10 | iggy | 4,770 |
| 11 | poem | 4,439 |
| 12 | sozu | 3,723 |
| 13 | simple-http-server | 3,461 |
| 14 | ntex | 2,533 |
| 15 | woodpecker | 2,307 |
| 16 | ureq | 2,182 |
| 17 | ferron | 2,129 |
| 18 | teo | 1,402 |
| 19 | http | 1,379 |
| 20 | Rouille, Rust web server middleware | 1,234 |
| 21 | cherrybomb | 1,232 |
| 22 | slumber | 1,224 |
| 23 | rama | 1,190 |
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