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Curl removes experimental HTTP back end in Rust
The ride is coming to an end. The experiment is done. We tried, but we admit defeat. Four years ago we started adding support for an alternative HTTP backend in curl. It would use a library written in rust, called hyper. The idea was to introduce an alternative implementation of HTTP internals that you could … Continue reading dropping hyper →
The initial work was generously sponsored by ISRG, the organization behind such excellent efforts such as Let’s Encrypt, which believes strongly in this concept. With no expectation of seeing this work completed in the short to medium length term, the cost of keeping the hyper code is simply deemed too high. These two backends use better internal APIs in curl and are hooked into libcurl in a cleaner way that makes them easier to support and less of burden to maintain over time.
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