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HTTP POST and Server-sent events interconnector, allowing simple publish-subsribe scheme using GET and POST requests.

Features

This is intended to be used as a building block, especially during development or prototyping.

Limitations

Installation

Download pre-built executables from Github releases, install it from source code with cargo install --path . or from crates.io with cargo install postsse.

Example

$ postsse 127.0.0.1:1234

$ curl -v http://127.0.0.1:1234/
*   Trying 127.0.0.1:1234...
* Connected to 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) port 1234 (#0)
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> Host: 127.0.0.1:1234
> User-Agent: curl/7.74.0
> Accept: */*
>
* Mark bundle as not supporting multiuse
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< content-type: text/event-stream
< access-control-allow-origin: *
< transfer-encoding: chunked
< date: Mon, 24 Oct 2022 21:58:36 GMT
<
data: 123        | $ curl http://127.0.0.1:1234/ -d 123
                 |
data: qwerty     | $ curl http://127.0.0.1:1234/ -d qwerty
                 |
data: ABC        | $ curl http://127.0.0.1:1234/ \
data: DEF        |     --data-binary $'ABC\nDEF\n'

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