plabayo/rama

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

Rama is a modular service framework for Rust for building network clients, servers, proxies, and traffic inspection tools from composable services, layers, and transports. It also ships a CLI (rama-cli) for HTTP requests with user-agent emulation, proxying, tunneling, and network diagnostics.

Use cases

• build a custom HTTP or TLS proxy in Rust
• inspect and transform network traffic for security analysis
• emulate browser user agents and TLS fingerprints for scraping
• build an API gateway or reverse proxy
• write high-performance HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 servers and clients
• run a MITM proxy to capture and analyze HTTPS traffic
• throttle or track bytes on network streams for testing

When to choose

• you need programmable, explicit control over the full network stack in Rust
• you are building proxies, traffic inspection, or client-emulation tooling
• you want composable middleware layers similar to tower but network-focused
• you need HTTP/TLS fingerprinting and user-agent emulation

When to avoid

• you just need a simple web API server with batteries included
• you want a config-driven proxy without writing Rust code
• your team is not comfortable with Rust and async (Tokio) programming
• you need a mature, long-proven framework for critical production web services

Facets

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http-server http-client proxy middleware networking web-framework cli security networking web-development security developer-tools backend rust windows cross-platform cli mitm tls http-proxy traffic-inspection user-agent-emulation service-composition tokio web-scraping api-gateway automation linux macos

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