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This page lists shared concepts or mechanisms that are used across various handlers.

Concepts

Request API Routing Method Definitions Execution Modes Response Content Resources Dependency Injection

Last updated on October 22, 2026

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Lightweight, embeddable HTTP web server for Kotlin and the JVM, with support for current standards such as Open API, JWT auth, Websockets and more.

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genhttp-kt is open source under the MIT license, a port of GenHTTP.

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