Smoke-testing Rust HTTP clients

Back in 2014 I was fetching frontpages of the top million websites to scan them for a particular vulnerability. Not only have I found 99,9% websites to be vulnerable to a trivial attack, I’ve also found that curl command was randomly crashing with a segmentation fault, indicating a likely vulnerability in libcurl — the HTTP client library that the whole world seems to depend on. By that time I was already disillusioned in the security of software written in C and the willingness of maintainers to fix it, so