http-rs/surf

Health v2 · maintenance only

Adoption not part of the score

1509 stars · 128 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Surf is an async HTTP client library for Rust with a friendly, ergonomic API and pluggable HTTP backends (curl, hyper, h1, wasm). It supports middleware, streaming requests/responses, JSON handling, and TLS via native-tls or rustls.

Use cases

• make http requests in rust
• async http client for rust
• call rest apis from rust
• send and receive json over http
• stream http request and response bodies
• swap http backends behind one client api
• build an sdk with a configurable http client

When to choose

• you want a simple, friendly async HTTP client API in Rust
• you need pluggable backends (curl, hyper, h1, wasm) behind one interface
• you want built-in middleware, streaming, and easy JSON serialization
• you're already in the async-std/http-rs ecosystem

When to avoid

• you want the most actively maintained Rust HTTP client - reqwest is the de facto standard
• your project is on tokio and you want first-class tokio-native support
• you need the latest HTTP features or prompt bug fixes - the crate hasn't released since 2021

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

http-client middleware serialization web-development apis backend rust cross-platform wasm async async-std tokio tls curl hyper json streaming

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