Assuming you're not using jQuery because of the heft, I suggest: https://github.com/ded/reqwest https://github.com/ded/reqwest The conspicuously absent feature

Assuming you're not using jQuery because of the heft, I suggest: https://github.com/ded/reqwest https://github.com/ded/reqwest The conspicuously absent feature from shred is the nice sugar for handling status codes.