Crate

tower-http

HTTP-specific tower middleware — tracing, compression, CORS, static files.

What it is

tower-http provides ready-to-use HTTP middleware for tower and axum services: request tracing via the tracing crate, response compression with gzip and brotli, CORS headers, static file serving, body size limits, timeout enforcement, and sensitive header redaction.

Why it is commonly used

The standard middleware library for axum web applications. Used in virtually every production axum service to add request logging, response compression, CORS, and auth middleware without writing them from scratch.

769
Repositories
90%
Actively maintained
685
Updated ≤ 30 days
2.3M
Total stars
708
Owners

Counted from the Cargo.toml manifests of the 769 indexed repositories that declare tower-http as a dependency — not download counts. Dependency data last verified 2026-09-16.

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