About

This library provides POSIX-like random-read-access to a HTTP-resource

It provides the following features:

• opening a HTTP-resource: this validates if the server supports HTTP-range-requests (required for random access), gets the resources's size and removes the percent-encoding to display a human-readable filename
• read/read_at, seek/tell and some helper-APIs

Dependencies

This library depends on network_io for the network-operations and http for the HTTP-encoding/decoding.

Build Library and Documentation

To build the documentation, go into the projects root-directory and run cargo doc --release; to open the documentation in your web-browser, run cargo doc --open.

To build the library, go into the projects root-directory and run cargo build --release; you can find the build in target/release.

TODO

• HTTPS-support
• Background-prefetching for better performance
• Maybe adaptive cache-resizing