http
v1.4.0 StableA set of types for representing HTTP requests and responses.
Quick Verdict
- ✓Stable API (1.x for 11+ years)
- ✓Massive adoption (125.8K crates depend on it)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)
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Deep Insights
49.6M downloads in the last 30 days (1.7M/day), up 19% from the previous period.
125.8K crates depend on http — it's part of the Rust ecosystem's core infrastructure. Removing it from your dependency tree would be extremely difficult.
The API has been stable (1.x) for over 11 years with 42 releases. This level of maturity means you can depend on it without worrying about breaking changes.
Notable dependents include hyper, http-body, h2, reqwest, tower-service. When high-quality crates choose http, it's a strong quality signal.
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Most downloaded crates that depend on http
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Feature Flags
default =["std"]
