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hyper
Rust2014–2026
hyperium / hyper

hyper

An HTTP library for Rust

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What it is

An HTTP library for Rust

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Where it is used

No documented product use was verified in the last source check.

What people are saying

I've jumped on the Rust bandwagon as part of ZeroTier 2.0 (not rewriting its core, but rewriting some service stuff in Rust and considering the core eventually). I've used a…

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 6:01:08 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year44 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-10-10 05:26:41 UTC to 2026-10-11 18:33:17 UTC.

0369122014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 1 submissions, 8 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 12 mentions; 1 submissions, 11 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC918
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC12111
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

From the project README

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hyper A protective and efficient HTTP library for all. HTTP/1 and HTTP/2 Asynchronous design Leading in performance Tested and correct Extensive production use Client and Server APIs Get started by looking over the guides. "Low-level" hyper is a relatively low-level library, meant to be a building block for libraries and applications. If you are looking for a convenient HTTP client, then you may wish to consider reqwest. If you are not sure what HTTP server to choose, then you may want to consider axum or warp, the latter taking a more functional approach. Both are built on top of this library. Contributing To get involved, take a look at CONTRIBUTING. If you prefer chatting, there is an active community in the Discord server. License hyper is provided under the MIT license. See LICENSE.
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What Hacker News says

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jonaf·Dec 23, 2016
edit: see replies to my comment. I mistook the Hyper pull request being merged for being in the latest release, but it isn't. Rocket uses Hyper for its HTTP server. So I checked to see if the Hyper HTTP server was really production-ready. Particularly, if it could handle async IO / solve the C10K problem[0]. It looks like Hyper implemented async IO[1], so it should be adequate for production use in this regard. This is great news for users of Rocket because it means you don't need a separate HTTP framework to run your web service, as you would with, say, Django + gunicorn. Sure, it's a dependency, but in this case, having a production-ready HTTP server out of the box is really nice! Having said that, is there any literature on Rocket/hyper for security? The production-ready HTTP server is great, but it also means it has to be prepared to
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deal with certain security issues, like listening on 0.0.0.0 and handling file uploads. You could put HAproxy/nginx/whatever in front of it, but I think Rust has the potential to supply / manage all of this within one unit and simplify the stack / attack surface area. [0]: http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html [1]: https://github.com/hyperium/hyper/pull/778
In Show HN: Rocket – Web Framework for Rust
nostrademons·May 17, 2016
You probably would add the most value by improving the maturity level of existing libraries. Some that I've run across that exist but don't really give me much confidence in using them in production include: https://github.com/sbeckeriv/warc http://techern.github.io/Varint-rs/varint/index.html https://github.com/hyperium/hyper https://github.com/rusoto/rusoto https://github.com/servo/html5ever (largely on the performance front; on a recent test of GZip + WARC reading + HTML parsing, Kotlin (on the JVM) + WebArchive Commons + JSoup beat Rust + warc_nom_parser + html5ever by about 25%, which does not fit with Rust's reputation as a fast systems programming language) And libraries that I wish existed but which don't really have good options: Web crawling. Hyper is listed above as an HTTP library, but there's nothing like Apache Nutch which
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respects hostloads and robots.txt and works as a turn-key solution. RSS parsing. RSS serialization works, and people have written toy RSS readers, but nobody's written a robust, self-contained RSS parsing library. Machine learning. It was a shame when Autumn.io gave up Leaf. Big data. Create a Hadoop/Spark alternative in Rust and the world will love you, at least if you can beat Hadoop's reliability, performance, and ease-of-use.
In Ask HN: Requested Rust libraries and/or interesting projects

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