http-auth
v0.1.10 GrowingHTTP authentication: parse challenge lists, respond to Basic and Digest challenges. Likely to be extended with server support and additional auth schemes.
Quick Verdict
- ✕Not updated for 1+ year
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Trusted by 111 crates
- ✓Permissive license (MIT/Apache-2.0)
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Deep Insights
1.2M downloads in the last 30 days (39.2K/day), up 4% from the previous period.
111 crates depend on http-auth. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.
Despite being 4+ years old, http-auth hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
At 40KB, http-auth is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.
Notable dependents include cargo, oci-client, oci-distribution, ruma-federation-api, rattler_networking. When high-quality crates choose http-auth, it's a strong quality signal.
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Feature Flags
default =["basic-scheme", "digest-scheme"]