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aria2
aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source download utility
aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source command-line download utility. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink. aria2 can be manipulated via built-in JSON-RPC and XML-RPC interfaces. aria2 can download a file from multiple sources/protocols and tries to utilize your maximum download bandwidth. Really speeds up your download experience. aria2 doesn’t require much memory and CPU time. When disk cache is off, the physical memory usage is typically 4MiB (normal HTTP/FTP downloads) to 9MiB (BitTorrent downloads). CPU usage in BitTorrent with a download speed of 2.8MiB/sec is around 6%. aria2 supports The Metalink Download Description Format (aka Metalink v4), Metalink version 3, and Metalink/HTTP. Metalink offers the file verification, HTTP/FTP/SFTP/BitTorrent integration and various configurations for language, location, OS, etc. -
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Open Directory Downloader
Indexes open directories
Indexes open directories listings in 130+ supported formats, including FTP(S), Google Drive, Bhadoo, GoIndex, Go2Index (alternatives), Dropbox, Mediafire, GoFile, GitHub. Written in C# with .NET (Core), which means it is cross-platform! Downloading is not (yet) implemented, but is already possible when you use the resulting file into another tool (for most of the formats). When you are NOT using the self-contained releases, you need to install the latest/current Runtime version of .NET 7. -
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ky
JavaScript HTTP client based on the browser Fetch API
Ky targets modern browsers and Deno. For older browsers, you will need to transpile and use a fetch polyfill and globalThis polyfill. For Node.js, check out Got. For isomorphic needs (like SSR), check out ky-universal. It's just a tiny file with no dependencies. Internally, the standard methods (GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, HEAD and DELETE) are uppercased in order to avoid server errors due to case sensitivity. Search parameters to include in the request URL. Setting this will override all existing search parameters in the input URL. After prefixUrl and input are joined, the result is resolved against the base URL of the page (if any). The hook can return a Request to replace the outgoing request, or return a Response to completely avoid making an HTTP request. This can be used to mock a request, check an internal cache, etc. An important consideration when returning a request or response from this hook is that any remaining beforeRequest hooks will be skipped. -
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Sōzu
Sōzu HTTP reverse proxy, configurable at runtime, fast and safe
Open source HTTP reverse proxy built in Rust for immutable infrastructures. Most existing tools have a static vision of production: a service is installed once on a long-lived server, updated from time to time, with configuration rarely changing. There's now a shift in infrastructure to short-lived virtual machines and hundreds of new deployments per day, and the usual tools reach their limits. How do we reconcile a dynamic environment with availability guarantees? How can we get "zero downtime" deployments for critical services? SŌZU is a HTTP reverse proxy built in Rust, that can handle fine-grained configuration changes at runtime without reloads, and is designed to never ever stop. SŌZU receives and handles configuration changes at runtime and updates its internal configuration without restarts. You can update the configuration multiple times per second, and it will take care of lingering connections. -
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Feign
Make writing Java http clients easier
Feign is a Java to HTTP client binder that was built primarily to make writing Java http clients easier. Inspired by previous projects Retrofit, JAXRS-2.0 and WebSocket, Feign was designed to reduce the complexity that is often involved in binding the Denominator uniformly to HTTP APIs, no matter the ReSTfulness. Feign works by processing annotations into a templatized request, to which arguments are applied in a straightforward manner before output. While it may only support text-based APIs, it simplifies system aspects dramatically and makes it much easier to unit test your conversions. Feign makes use of great tools like Jersey and CXF for writing Java clients for ReST or SOAP services. It also lets you write your own code on top of http libraries, and connects your code to http APIs with little overhead. -
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Hetty
An HTTP toolkit for security research
Hetty is an HTTP toolkit for security research. It aims to become an open-source alternative to commercial software like Burp Suite Pro, with powerful features tailored to the needs of the infosec and bug bounty communities. Machine-in-the-middle (MITM) HTTP proxy, with logs and advanced search. HTTP client for manually creating/editing requests, and replay proxied requests. Intercept requests and responses for manual review (edit, send/receive, cancel) Scope support, to help keep work organized. Easy-to-use web-based admin interface. Project-based database storage, to help keep work organized. -
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Sub-Store
Advanced Subscription Manager for QX, Loon, Surge, Stash, etc.
Advanced subscription manager for QX, Loon, Surge, Stash and ShadowRocket. Conversion among various formats. Subscription formatting. Collect multiple subscriptions in one URL. -
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Typhon
A wrapper around Go's net/http to provide safety and convenience
Typhon is a wrapper around Go's net/http library that we use at Monzo to build RPC servers and clients in our microservices platform. A wrapper around Go's net/http to provide safety and convenience. At Monzo, Typhon forms the basis of most clients and servers in our microservices platform. Forgetting to body.Close() in a client when the body has been dealt with is a common source of resource leaks in Go programs in our experience. Typhon ensures that – unless you're doing something really weird with the body – it will be closed automatically. Marshalling and unmarshalling request bodies to structs is such a common operation that our Request and Response objects support them directly. If the operations fail, the errors are propagated automatically since that's nearly always what a server will want. -
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libhv
Network library for developing TCP/UDP/SSL/HTTP/WebSocket/MQTT client
Like libevent, libev, and libuv, libhv provides event loop with non-blocking IO and timer, but simpler api and richer protocols. Cross-platform (Linux, Windows, MacOS, BSD, Solaris, Android, iOS) High-performance EventLoop (IO, timer, idle, custom) TCP/UDP client/server/proxy. TCP supports heartbeat, reconnect, upstream, MultiThread-safe write and close, etc. Built-in common unpacking modes (FixedLength, Delimiter, LengthField) RUDP support: WITH_KCP. SSL/TLS support: (via WITH_OPENSSL or WITH_GNUTLS or WITH_MBEDTLS) HTTP client/server (support https http1/x http2 grpc). HTTP supports static service, indexof service, proxy service, sync/async API handler. HTTP supports RESTful, router, middleware, keep-alive, chunked, SSE, etc. WebSocket client/server. -
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oha
HTTP load generator, inspired by rakyll/hey with tui animation
oha is a tiny program that sends some load to a web application and shows real-time tui inspired by rakyll/hey. This program is written in Rust and powered by tokio and beautiful tui by tui-rs. -q option works differently from rakyll/hey. It's set the overall query per second instead of for each worker. -
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urllib3
Python HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling
urllib3 is a powerful, user-friendly HTTP client for Python. Much of the Python ecosystem already uses urllib3 and you should too. Thread safety, connection pooling. Client-side TLS/SSL verification. File uploads with multipart encoding. Helpers for retrying requests and dealing with HTTP redirects. Support for gzip, deflate, brotli, and zstd encoding. Proxy support for HTTP and SOCKS. 100% test coverage. Professional support for urllib3 is available as part of the Tidelift Subscription. Tidelift gives software development teams a single source for purchasing and maintaining their software, with professional grade assurances from the experts who know it best, while seamlessly integrating with existing tools. -
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RESTinio
HTTP/WebSocket server C++14 library
RESTinio is a header-only C++14 library that gives you an embedded HTTP/WebSocket server. It is based on the standalone version of ASIO and is targeted primarily for the asynchronous processing of HTTP requests. Since v.0.4.1 Boost::ASIO (1.66 or higher) is also supported. Consider the task of writing a C++ application that must support some REST API, RESTinio represents our solution for that task. Server runs on the main thread, and responds to all requests with a hello-world message. Of course, you've got access to the structure of a given HTTP request, so you can apply complex logic for handling requests. Async request handling. Cannot get the response data immediately? That's ok, store the request handle somewhere and/or pass it to another execution context and get back to it when the data is ready. -
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UBoat HTTP
HTTP Botnet
A proof-of-concept HTTP Botnet designed to replicate a full weaponized commercial botnet. This project should be used for authorized testing or educational purposes only. The main objective behind creating this offensive project was to aid security researchers and to enhance the understanding of commercial HTTP loader-style botnets. We hope this project helps to contribute to the malware research community and that people can develop efficient countermeasures. Written in C++ with no dependencies. Encrypted C&C communications. Persistence to prevent your control from being lost. Connection redundancy (Uses a fallback server address or domain). DDoS methods (TCP & UDP Flood). Task Creation System (Altering system HWID, Country, IP, OS.System). Remote command execution. Update and uninstall other malware. Download and execute other malware. Active as well as a passive key-logger. Enable Windows RDP. Plugin system for easy feature updates. -
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pgrok
HTTP/TCP reverse tunnel solution through SSH remote port forwarding
The pgrok is a multi-tenant HTTP/TCP reverse tunnel solution through remote port forwarding from the SSH protocol. This is intended for small teams that need to expose the local development environment to the public internet, and you need to bring your own domain name and SSO provider. It gives a stable subdomain for every user and gated by your SSO through the OIDC protocol. Think of this as a bare-bones alternative to the ngrok's $65/user/month enterprise tier. Trying to put this behind a production system will blow up your SLA. For individuals and production systems, just buy ngrok, it is still my favorite. -
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plow
A high-performance HTTP benchmarking tool
Plow is an HTTP(S) benchmarking tool, written in Golang. It uses excellent fast HTTP instead of Go's default net/http due to its lightning-fast performance. Plow runs at specified connections (option -c) concurrently and real-time records summary statistics, histogram of execution time and calculates percentiles to display on Web UI and terminal. It can run for a set duration( option -d), for a fixed number of requests(option -n), or until Ctrl-C is interrupted. The implementation of real-time computing Histograms and Quantiles using stream-based algorithms inspired by Prometheus with low memory and CPU bounds. so it's almost no additional performance overhead for benchmarking. -
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sish
HTTP(S)/WS(S)/TCP Tunnels to localhost using only SSH
An open source serveo/ngrok alternative. Builds are made automatically for each commit to the repo and are pushed to Dockerhub. Builds are tagged using a commit sha, branch name, tag, latest if released on main. Each release builds separate sish binaries that can be downloaded from here for various OS/archs. Feel free to either use the automated binaries or to build your own. If you submit a PR, images are not built by default and will require a retag from a maintainer to be built. You can also use Docker Compose to setup your sish instance. This includes taking care of SSL via Let's Encrypt for you. This uses the adferrand/dnsrobocert container to handle issuing wildcard certifications over DNS. SSH can normally forward local and remote ports. This service implements an SSH server that only handles forwarding and nothing else. The service supports multiplexing connections over HTTP/HTTPS with WebSocket support. -
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Brynet
A Header-Only cross-platform C++ TCP network library
Header Only Cross-platform high-performance TCP network library using C++ 11. The server uses two network threads and one logic thread, the client uses one network (also process logic) thread. Every packet size is 46 bytes. Every packet contains the client's id. Server broadcast packets to all clients when recv one packet from any client. The client sends one packet when recv packet from the server and the packet's id is equal self. -
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CppServer
Fast and low latency asynchronous socket server & client C++ library
Ultra-fast and low latency asynchronous socket server & client C++ library with support TCP, SSL, UDP, HTTP, HTTPS, WebSocket protocols, and 10K connections problem solution. Cross platform (Linux, MacOS, Windows) Asynchronous communication. Supported CPU scalability designs: IO service per thread, thread pool. Supported transport protocols: TCP, SSL, UDP, UDP multicast. Supported Web protocols: HTTP, HTTPS, WebSocket, WebSocket secure. Supported Swagger OpenAPI iterative documentation. Supported message protocol based on Fast Binary Encoding. -
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LaravelS
LaravelS is an out-of-the-box adapter between Laravel/Lumen and Swoole
LaravelS is an out-of-the-box adapter between Laravel/Lumen and Swoole. LaravelS uses Swoole's Synchronous IO mode, the larger the worker_num setting, the better the concurrency performance, but it will cause more memory usage and process switching overhead. If one request takes 100ms, in order to provide 1000QPS concurrency, at least 100 Worker processes need to be configured. Create WebSocket Handler class, and implement interface WebSocketHandlerInterface. The instant is automatically instantiated when start, you do not need to manually create it. -
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Milkman
An extensible request/response workbench
Milkman is heavily inspired by Postman. But I got sick of all those electron-based applications that need ages and loads of memory to start up. Therefore, this is a JavaFx-based workbench for crafting requests/responses. It is not limited to e.g. HTTP (or more specifically rest) requests. Due to nearly everything being a plugin, other things are possible, like database requests or GRPC, GraphQl, etc. Request-types (e.g. Http Request), request-aspects (e.g. Headers, Body, etc), editors for request aspects (e.g. table-based editors for headers), importers, whatever it is, you can extend it. The core application only handles Workspaces with Environments, Collections, Requests, and their aspects. Several plugins are provided already that extend the core application to be a replacement for postman. Crafting and Executing Http/Rest requests with json highlighting. Support Proxy-server configuration and SSE. -
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WebLink Component
Manages links between resources
The WebLink component manages links between resources. It is particularly useful to advise clients to preload and prefetch documents through HTTP and HTTP/2 pushes. This component implements the HTML5's Links, Preload and Resource Hints W3C's specifications. It can also be used with extensions defined in the HTML5 link type extensions wiki. -
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cross-fetch
Universal WHATWG Fetch API for Node, Browsers and React Native
Universal WHATWG Fetch API for Node, Browsers and React Native. The scenario that cross-fetch really shines is when the same JavaScript codebase needs to run on different platforms. Platform agnostic, browsers, Node or React Native. Optional polyfill, it's up to you if something is going to be added to the global object or not. Simple interface, no instantiation, no configuration and no extra dependency. WHATWG compliant, it works the same way wherever your code runs. TypeScript support, better development experience with types. -
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faasd
A lightweight & portable faas engine
faasd is OpenFaaS reimagined but without the cost and complexity of Kubernetes. It runs on a single host with very modest requirements, making it fast and easy to manage. Under the hood it uses containers and Container Networking Interface (CNI) along with the same core OpenFaaS components from the main project. To deploy microservices and functions that you can update and monitor remotely. When you don't have the bandwidth to learn or manage Kubernetes. To deploy embedded apps in IoT and edge use-cases. To distribute applications to a customer or client. You have a cost sensitive project - run faasd on a 1GB VM for 5-10 USD / mo or on your Raspberry Pi. When you just need a few functions or microservices, without the cost of a cluster. -
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go-mitmproxy
mitmproxy implemented with golang
go-mitmproxy is a Golang implementation of mitmproxy that supports man-in-the-middle attacks and parsing, monitoring, and tampering with HTTP/HTTPS traffic. Parses HTTP/HTTPS traffic and displays traffic details via a web interface. Supports a plugin mechanism for easily extending functionality. Various event hooks can be found in the examples directory. HTTPS certificate handling is compatible with mitmproxy and stored in the ~/.mitmproxy folder. If the root certificate is already trusted from the previous use of mitmproxy, go-mitmproxy can use it directly. Map Remote and Map Local support. -
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http4k
The Functional toolkit for Kotlin HTTP applications
http4k is a lightweight but fully-featured HTTP toolkit written in pure Kotlin that enables the serving and consuming of HTTP services in a functional and consistent way. http4k applications are just Kotlin functions. http4k consists of a lightweight core library, http4k-core, providing a base HTTP implementation and Server/Client implementations based on the JDK classes. Further servers, clients, serverless, templating, websockets capabilities are then implemented in add-on modules. http4k apps can be simply mounted into a running Server, Serverless platform, or compiled to GraalVM and run as a super-lightweight binary. Apart the from Kotlin StdLib, http4k-core module has ZERO dependencies and weighs in at ~1mb. Add-on modules only have dependencies required for specific implementation.