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Replace hyper with a lighterweight framework

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#2,040 opened on Nov 28, 2018

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Description

Hyper accounts for close to half of our external dependencies. We need to start weeding those out as much as possible or at least get a good control over them (see #2026).

Suggestions as base, both with far less dependencies:

https://github.com/tomaka/rouille https://github.com/steveklabnik/simple-server (would have to add TLS support)

Note that we could potentially create a fork of those and replace some of their dependencies with ours (same log framework, serde, etc). I think @hashmap and @garyyu have looked a bit at hyper replacements, any feedback?

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Evaluate the suggested lightweight HTTP server frameworks (rouille, simple server) for feasibility, dependency count, and compatibility with existing code. Consider TLS support for simple server and potential fork modifications.
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