websockets-rs/rust-websocket

Health v2 · maintenance only

Adoption not part of the score

1613 stars · 225 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

Rust-WebSocket is a Rust library implementing the WebSocket protocol (RFC6455) for both client and server connections, with message-level and data-frame-level APIs and support for secure WebSockets. The project is effectively in maintenance mode and its own README recommends using tungstenite or tokio-tungstenite instead, since it depends on obsolete versions of Hyper and Tokio.

Use cases

• implement a websocket server in rust
• connect to a websocket endpoint from rust
• handle websocket message fragmentation
• add secure wss connections to a rust app
• work with raw websocket data frames
• test websocket conformance against autobahn suite

When to choose

• you are maintaining an existing codebase already built on rust-websocket
• you need a pure-rust RFC6455 implementation with a frame-level API and cannot switch libraries

When to avoid

• starting a new Rust project (use tungstenite or tokio-tungstenite instead)
• you need async support on modern Tokio versions
• you need actively maintained code with timely bug fixes

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

websocket http-server http-client networking web-development backend networking rust cross-platform rfc6455 websocket-client websocket-server deprecated legacy-dependencies real-time

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