Tower Async HTTP

Tower Async middleware and utilities for HTTP clients and servers.

It is a fork of https://github.com/tower-rs/tower-http and makes use of async traits to simplify things and make it more easier to integrate async functions into middleware.

More information about this crate can be found in the crate documentation.

Middleware

Tower Async HTTP contains lots of middleware that are generally useful when building HTTP servers and clients. Some of the highlights are:

• Compression and Decompression to compress/decompress response bodies.
• FollowRedirect to automatically follow redirection responses.

See the docs for the complete list of middleware.

Middleware uses the http crate as the HTTP interface so they're compatible with any library or framework that also uses http. For example hyper.

Supported Rust Versions

Tower Async requires nightly Rust for the time being and has no backwards compatibility promises for the time being.

Once async traits are stabilized we'll start supporting stable rust once again, and we can start working towards backwards compatibility.

Read https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2023/05/03/stabilizing-async-fn-in-trait.html for more information on this roadmap by the Rust Language Core Team.

Getting Started

If you're brand new to Tower and want to start with the basics we recommend you check out some of the original Tower guides.

We work exactly the same as Tower, expect in an async manner and slightly easier to use as such. But the core ideas are obviously the same, so it should never the less help you to get started.

FAQ

Read the full tower-async FAQ at https://github.com/plabayo/tower-async#faq.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in Tower HTTP by you, shall be licensed as MIT, without any additional terms or conditions.