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+  <h1>Actix Web</h1>
+  <p>
+    <strong>Actix Web is a powerful, pragmatic, and extremely fast web framework for Rust</strong>
+  </p>
+  <p>
+
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+  </p>
+</div>
+
+## Features
+
+- Supports _HTTP/1.x_ and _HTTP/2_
+- Streaming and pipelining
+- Powerful [request routing](https://actix.rs/docs/url-dispatch/) with optional macros
+- Full [Tokio](https://tokio.rs) compatibility
+- Keep-alive and slow requests handling
+- Client/server [WebSockets](https://actix.rs/docs/websockets/) support
+- Transparent content compression/decompression (br, gzip, deflate, zstd)
+- Multipart streams
+- Static assets
+- SSL support using OpenSSL or Rustls
+- Middlewares ([Logger, Session, CORS, etc](https://actix.rs/docs/middleware/))
+- Integrates with the [`awc` HTTP client](https://docs.rs/awc/)
+- Runs on stable Rust 1.88+
+
+### Experimental features
+
+To enable faster release iterations, we mark some features as experimental.
+These features are prefixed with `experimental` and a breaking change may happen at any release.
+Please use them in a production environment at your own risk.
+
+- `experimental-introspection`: exposes route and method reporting helpers for local diagnostics
+  and tooling. See [`examples/introspection.rs`](examples/introspection.rs) and
+  [`examples/introspection_multi_servers.rs`](examples/introspection_multi_servers.rs).
+
+## Documentation
+
+- [Website & User Guide](https://actix.rs)
+- [Examples Repository](https://github.com/actix/examples)
+- [API Documentation](https://docs.rs/actix-web)
+- [API Documentation (mainranch)](https://actix.rs/actix-web/actix_web)
+
+## Example
+
+Dependencies:
+
+```toml
+[dependencies]
+actix-web = "4"
+```
+
+Code:
+
+```rust
+use actix_web::{get, web, App, HttpServer, Responder};
+
+#[get("/hello/{name}")]
+async fn greet(name: web::Path<String>) -> impl Responder {
+    format!("Hello {name}!")
+}
+
+#[actix_web::main] // or #[tokio::main]
+async fn main() -> std::io::Result<()> {
+    HttpServer::new(|| {
+        App::new().service(greet)
+    })
+    .bind(("127.0.0.1", 8080))?
+    .run()
+    .await
+}
+```
+
+### More Examples
+
+- [Hello World](https://github.com/actix/examples/tree/main/basics/hello-world)
+- [Basic Setup](https://github.com/actix/examples/tree/main/basics/basics)
+- [Application State](https://github.com/actix/examples/tree/main/basics/state)
+- [JSON Handling](https://github.com/actix/examples/tree/main/json/json)
+- [Multipart Streams](https://github.com/actix/examples/tree/main/forms/multipart)
+- [MongoDB Integration](https://github.com/actix/examples/tree/main/databases/mongodb)
+- [Diesel Integration](https://github.com/actix/examples/tree/main/databases/diesel)
+- [SQLite Integration](https://github.com/actix/examples/tree/main/databases/sqlite)
+- [Postgres Integration](https://github.com/actix/examples/tree/main/databases/postgres)
+- [Tera Templates](https://github.com/actix/examples/tree/main/templating/tera)
+- [Askama Templates](https://github.com/actix/examples/tree/main/templating/askama)
+- [HTTPS using Rustls](https://github.com/actix/examples/tree/main/https-tls/rustls)
+- [HTTPS using OpenSSL](https://github.com/actix/examples/tree/main/https-tls/openssl)
+- [Simple WebSocket](https://github.com/actix/examples/tree/main/websockets)
+- [WebSocket Chat](https://github.com/actix/examples/tree/main/websockets/chat)
+
+You may consider checking out [this directory](https://github.com/actix/examples/tree/main) for more examples.
+
+## Benchmarks
+
+One of the fastest web frameworks available according to the [TechEmpower Framework Benchmark](https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r21&test=composite).
+
+## License
+
+This project is licensed under either of the following licenses, at your option:
+
+- Apache License, Version 2.0, ([LICENSE-APACHE](LICENSE-APACHE) or [http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0])
+- MIT license ([LICENSE-MIT](LICENSE-MIT) or [https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT])
+
+## Code of Conduct
+
+Contribution to the `actix/actix-web` repo is organized under the terms of the Contributor Covenant. The Actix team promises to intervene to uphold that code of conduct.