Greetings to all.
I have spent the last couple of evenings learning about Rust and trying it out. Wrote a simple cli calculator as a first thing and thought I would improve it by making it available over http.
I was actually a bit surprised to find that there was no http tooling in the standard library, and searching online gave me an overload of information on different libraries and frameworks.
I ended up implementing my own simple HTTP server, might as well as this is a learning project.
Now I have it working, and while it isn’t perfect or done, I thought that this would be a good time to check what things I am doing wrong/badly.
Which is why I am here, would love to get some pointers on it all to make sure I am going in the right direction in the future.
The project is hosted here: https://github.com/Tebro/rsimple_http
I’m surprised that you’re surprised that there’s not http servers in the standard library
I guess that it makes sense. I’ve been doing Go for the past two years.
You’re not crazy. HTTP is commonly part of standard libraries nowadays.
Only in languages that do not consider long term support before adding stuff to the standard library.
There really isn’t a good reason to add things like protocols that change significantly over time in a standard library.
I doubt TCP/UDP or basic HTTP requests will change much, but I guess it depends on how high-level the API is.
HTTP has changed quite a bit from HTTP/1.0 -> 2.0.