httimple.rs

Simple HTTP 2.0 library

Introduction

Httiple aims to make HTTP/2 over TLS in rust simple. It adopts a Express-like interface.

Implemented

• A basic implementation of the h2 standard.
• A per stream state based handler.
• A simple interface.
• Continous Deployment (deploys to crates.io)

Working on

• Making the implementation of HTTP/2 work in all browsers (currently only working in chrome)
• Fix TLS errors (Don't know if this is my fault of rustls)
• Implement the missing frametypes.
• Add support for priority.
• Make the callback a future.
• Implement a propper hpack lib in rust (the one used currently seems a bit broken)
• Serving static files (started, but currently impossible to make multiple requests)
• Write tests for everything. My testing library I was working around does not have TLS support.
• Improve tls setup process.
• Adding an ORM and mongodb (a lot of this is done in https://github.com/halvorboe/rust-rest) to possible make it more like Django Framework.

Get started

1. Install Rust.

2. Create the project.

cargo new myserver 

3. Add required files.

Add an index.html and a certificate in the main folder. Name the certificate folder "ca".

4. Add depencies

Add this to your Cargo.toml

[dependencies]
httimple = "*"

5. Write the code

Make a file containing this and name it main.rs.

extern crate httimple;

use httimple::app::App;

use httimple::app::message::Message;
use httimple::app::call::Call;

use httimple::helpers::file;


fn main() {
    let mut app = App::new();
    app.serve("/", | call: &Call | -> Message {
        Message::from(file("index.html"))
    });
    app.start();
}

6. Run the code

cargo run --release

Dependecies

bitreader -> Handles the reading of blocks. Could be removed in favor of binary operations, but it makes the code easier to read.

mio = "0.6.14" -> Handles the async io.

rustls = "0.12.0" -> TLS

hpack_codec = "0.1.0" -> Handles decoding and encoding of headers. Seems broken to some degree.

Tests

To run the tests, clone this repo and run:

cargo test

Documentation

https://docs.rs/httimple/0.1.7/httimple/