hunt-http

Hunt-Http is a flexible performant http server and client written in D Programming Language.

Features

Feature	Server	Client
HTTP 1.x	tested	tested
HTTP/2	tested	tested
TLS 1.2	tested	tested[1]
WebSocket[2]	tested	tested
Routing	tested	none
Cookie	tested	tested[3]
Session	tested[4]	tested
Form-Data[5]	tested	tested
X-WWW-Form	tested	tested

Note:

[1] Mutual TLS supported
[2] WSS untested
[3] In-memory only
[4] In-memory only
[5] File upload and download

Simple codes

Using hunt-http build a web server

import hunt.http;

void main()
{
    auto server = HttpServer.builder()
        .setListener(8080, "0.0.0.0")
        .setHandler((RoutingContext context) {
            context.write("Hello World!");
            context.end();
        }).build();

    server.start();
}

Using hunt-http build a http client

import hunt.http;

import std.stdio;

void main()
{
    auto client = new HttpClient();

    auto request = new RequestBuilder().url("http://www.huntlabs.net").build();

    auto response = client.newCall(request).execute();

    if (response !is null)
    {
        writeln(response.getBody().asString());
    }
}

Using hunt-http build a websocket server

import hunt.http;

void main()
{
    auto server = HttpServer.builder()
        .setListener(8080, "0.0.0.0")
        .websocket("/ws", new class AbstractWebSocketMessageHandler {
            override void onText(WebSocketConnection connection, string text)
            {
                connection.sendText("Hello " ~ text);
            }
        }).build()

    server.start();
}

Avaliable versions

Name	Description
HUNT_HTTP_DEBUG	Used to log debug messages about Hunt-HTTP
HUNT_METRIC	Used to enable some operations and APIs about metric

TODO

• Reorganizing modules
• PersistentCookieStore for HttpClient
• Benchmark

References

• Eclipse Jetty 9.4.x, https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project