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.
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.
2014
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.
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.
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.
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.