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The state of HTTP libraries in Rust is a constant flux. See Are we web yet? for an overview of the current affairs. There's rust-http which although usable (for example Nickel builds on top of that) is not developed anymore. Teepee, it's conceptual successor, is in the words of it's author not even vaguely usable. Meanwhile a new library emerged during the last few months: hyper, which will be the subject of this blogpost.