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rust-http
Rust2013–2014
chris-morgan / rust-http · Archived

rust-http

Completely OBSOLETE Rust HTTP library (server and client)

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13Mentions
3Explicit recommenders
390GitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

What to know before exploring

What it is

Completely OBSOLETE Rust HTTP library (server and client)

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

Since none of your examples are actually doing the same thing, I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. That being said, I've reformatted the code from the original post…

someone13 used a recommendation phrase. 3 indexed comments match. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

No classified warning is attached to this page. Read the discussions before treating silence as approval.

Also in these discussions

No other repository is repeatedly linked in the same discussions.

This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 9:01:12 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by month13 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2013-08-20 03:21:48 UTC to 2014-07-02 17:32:32 UTC.

01232013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsAug 20132013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJan 20142014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJul 2014

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Aug 20132013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Sep 20132013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC312
Oct 20132013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Nov 20132013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20132013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Jan 20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Feb 20142014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Mar 20142014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20142014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC101
May 20142014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20142014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Jul 20142014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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cmrx64·Jul 2, 2014
I suspect the issue is Iron, though rust-http certainly isn't helping much. Here are some graphs, generated from data made by rust-http's benchmarking script (https://github.com/chris-morgan/rust-http/tree/master/compar...), on my box. A spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-5_4wPPKNBYZ6yuw-rRl... The raw data: https://gist.github.com/cmr/3648bcc6365c1dba83f1 The charts themselves: http://imgur.com/gw1mp40,Hn3929i,h2OQiTh Software versions: rustc 0.11.0-pre (44ec28cfac9fa3f738e0e77ccca1d804125fd1dd 2014-07-01 21:26:33 +0000) go version go1.3 linux/amd64 node v0.10.29 Apache 2.4.9 wrk 3.1.0 Arch Linux, x86_64, CPU: https://gist.github.com/cmr/7cc6df806caff2253667
In Show HN: Iron, a fast middleware-oriented Rust web server framework

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