HTTP Clients

Recipe	Crates	Categories
reqwest
ureq
Build a HTTP Client with hyper

reqwest

reqwest⮳ is a full-fat HTTP client. It can be used in both synchronous and asynchronous code. It requires the tokio⮳ runtime.

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ureq

ureq⮳ is a minimal synchronous HTTP client, focused on simplicity and minimizing dependencies.

fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
    let url = "https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1";
    let response: String =
        ureq::get(url).call()?.body_mut().read_to_string()?;

    println!("Response: {}", response);
    Ok(())
}

Build a HTTP Client with hyper

hyper⮳ is a HTTP/1 and HTTP/2 implementation (both client and server) that works best with the tokio⮳ async runtime, but can support other runtimes.

hyper⮳ is meant to be a low-level building block and is indeed used by higher-level libraries such as curl⮳, reqwest⮳, and aws-sdk. You will likely reach for hyper⮳ to design such tools or access to bleeding-edge features (like HTTP/3).

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References

• hyper examples⮳.