Decision Workspace
headers-accept vs negotiator vs http-cache-semantics
Side-by-side comparison of Rust crates
52
headers-accept
growingv0.3.0
🤝 The missing `Accept` implementation for `headers::Header`
50
negotiator
experimentalv0.1.0
HTTP content negotiation for Accept, Accept-Charset, Accept-Encoding, and Accept-Language headers. A faithful port of the `negotiator` npm package. Zero dependencies, no_std.
68
http-cache-semantics
growingv3.0.0
RFC 7234. Parses HTTP headers to correctly compute cacheability of responses, even in complex cases
Core Metrics
| headers-accept | negotiator | http-cache-semantics | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Score | 52 | 50 | 68 |
| Total Downloads | 357.7K | 21 | 4.5M |
| 30d Downloads | 15.6K | 0 | 244.2K |
| Dependents | 49 | 0 | 2.4K |
| Releases | 8 | 1 | 18 |
| Last Updated | 233d ago | 20d ago | 159d ago |
| Age | 2y 2m | 20d | 6y 5m |
Health Breakdown
headers-accept
Maintenance
9
Quality
15
Community
11
Popularity
7
Documentation
10
negotiator
Maintenance
12
Quality
15
Community
6
Popularity
2
Documentation
15
http-cache-semantics
Maintenance
9
Quality
16
Community
20
Popularity
8
Documentation
15
Technical Details
| headers-accept | negotiator | http-cache-semantics | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version | 0.3.0 | 0.1.0 | 3.0.0 |
| Stable (≥1.0) | ✗ No | ✗ No | ✓ Yes |
| License | MIT | MIT OR Apache-2.0 | BSD-2-Clause |
| Dependencies | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| Crate Size | 10KB | 17KB | 21KB |
| Features | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Yanked % | 0.0% | 0.0% | 22.2% |
| Edition | 2021 | 2021 | 2024 |
| MSRV | — | 1.81 | 1.85 |
| Owners | 1 | 1 | 2 (team) |
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Quick Verdict
- •http-cache-semantics leads with a health score of 68/100, but none of the options score above 80.
- •http-cache-semantics is depended on by 2.4K crates — strongest ecosystem trust.
- •headers-accept, negotiator are pre-1.0 — API may change.