Reqwest Rust

Use these conventions for Rust HTTP clients built with seanmonstar/reqwest.

Source Baseline

• Prefer released docs from docs.rs/reqwest, crates.io, and the matching GitHub release over older snippets.
• Current docs.rs baseline checked for this skill: reqwest 0.13.3.
• Reqwest is an ergonomic, batteries-included HTTP client with async and blocking APIs.
• The async API requires Tokio. The blocking API is feature-gated and must not run directly inside an async runtime.
• Reqwest implements Tower Service<Request> for Client, but ordinary code usually uses Client request builders.
• WASM support exists, but this skill is for native Rust clients; WASM disables or changes several features including TLS, cookies, blocking, and some builder methods.

Cargo

For native async clients, prefer explicit TLS selection. Cargo features are additive, so default-features = false is the reliable way to avoid an unexpected default TLS backend from this crate declaration.