[mcmatterson]

Bandit is an HTTP server, not a client. It performs the same job in the stack as Cowboy does currently (just up to 5x faster as this post's title alludes to).

The Bandit project shares a small amount of code with the Mint project (Andrea & Eric were kind enough to factor out their HTTP/2 header compression library for use in Bandit), but this is mostly due to HTTP being a largely symmetric protocol (ie: there is a lot of functionality used equally by both clients and servers).