Blog posts: Teepee

Teepee was an attempted redesign of rust-http. It never got finished. Still, some valuable stuff came out of its design, and Hyper rose after it.

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2014

Teepee design: the HTTP method

Now we come to the Method type. While there are a few improvements to be made, this is one of the things that probably can’t be significantly improved on over rust-http.

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Teepee design: header representation

Header representation is a critical matter to Teepee’s design: it is uncompromisingly strongly typed, but there must be tradeoffs. After trying quite a few different schemes at length, I have settled upon quite a novel scheme which I believe to optimally balance all considerations.

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Teepee design: Status-Line, take two

My first look at the Status-Line kept largely to what rust-http had done; some great discussion came up and a conceptual flaw in my models was revealed. Now I present some better options.

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Teepee design: a careful look at the HTTP/1.1 Status-Line

rust-http has a nice Status enum which provides good, strong typing of statuses, but alas, it is not without its issues. Let’s take a look at the Status-Line as it is defined.

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Introducing Teepee: the next step for rust-http

rust-http was but an experiment, an essay in the craft. Here, at last, is the real thing: the Teepee project, a properly engineered HTTP toolkit.

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