diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index b55d383..d0af380 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -243,6 +243,17 @@ dependencies = [
  "pin-project-lite",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "async-net"
+version = "2.0.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b948000fad4873c1c9339d60f2623323a0cfd3816e5181033c6a5cb68b2accf7"
+dependencies = [
+ "async-io",
+ "blocking",
+ "futures-lite",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "async-process"
 version = "2.3.0"
@@ -298,6 +309,29 @@ version = "1.4.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "ace50bade8e6234aa140d9a2f552bbee1db4d353f69b8217bc503490fc1a9f26"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "aws-lc-rs"
+version = "1.13.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "19b756939cb2f8dc900aa6dcd505e6e2428e9cae7ff7b028c49e3946efa70878"
+dependencies = [
+ "aws-lc-sys",
+ "zeroize",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "aws-lc-sys"
+version = "0.28.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "bfa9b6986f250236c27e5a204062434a773a13243d2ffc2955f37bdba4c5c6a1"
+dependencies = [
+ "bindgen",
+ "cc",
+ "cmake",
+ "dunce",
+ "fs_extra",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "backtrace"
 version = "0.3.74"
@@ -337,6 +371,29 @@ version = "0.22.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "72b3254f16251a8381aa12e40e3c4d2f0199f8c6508fbecb9d91f575e0fbb8c6"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "bindgen"
+version = "0.69.5"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "271383c67ccabffb7381723dea0672a673f292304fcb45c01cc648c7a8d58088"
+dependencies = [
+ "bitflags 2.9.0",
+ "cexpr",
+ "clang-sys",
+ "itertools",
+ "lazy_static",
+ "lazycell",
+ "log",
+ "prettyplease",
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "regex",
+ "rustc-hash 1.1.0",
+ "shlex",
+ "syn 2.0.100",
+ "which",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "bitflags"
 version = "1.3.2"
@@ -482,6 +539,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "shlex",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "cexpr"
+version = "0.6.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "6fac387a98bb7c37292057cffc56d62ecb629900026402633ae9160df93a8766"
+dependencies = [
+ "nom",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "cfg-if"
 version = "0.1.10"
@@ -539,6 +605,17 @@ dependencies = [
  "inout",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "clang-sys"
+version = "1.8.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "0b023947811758c97c59bf9d1c188fd619ad4718dcaa767947df1cadb14f39f4"
+dependencies = [
+ "glob",
+ "libc",
+ "libloading",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "clap"
 version = "4.5.37"
@@ -588,6 +665,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "error-code",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "cmake"
+version = "0.1.54"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "e7caa3f9de89ddbe2c607f4101924c5abec803763ae9534e4f4d7d8f84aa81f0"
+dependencies = [
+ "cc",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "colorchoice"
 version = "1.0.3"
@@ -987,6 +1073,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "percent-encoding",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "fs_extra"
+version = "1.3.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "42703706b716c37f96a77aea830392ad231f44c9e9a67872fa5548707e11b11c"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "futures-channel"
 version = "0.3.31"
@@ -1032,6 +1124,17 @@ dependencies = [
  "syn 2.0.100",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "futures-rustls"
+version = "0.26.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a8f2f12607f92c69b12ed746fabf9ca4f5c482cba46679c1a75b874ed7c26adb"
+dependencies = [
+ "futures-io",
+ "rustls 0.23.26",
+ "rustls-pki-types",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "futures-sink"
 version = "0.3.31"
@@ -1129,6 +1232,12 @@ version = "0.30.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "d0e9b6647e9b41d3a5ef02964c6be01311a7f2472fea40595c635c6d046c259e"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "glob"
+version = "0.3.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a8d1add55171497b4705a648c6b583acafb01d58050a51727785f0b2c8e0a2b2"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "h2"
 version = "0.3.26"
@@ -1140,7 +1249,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "futures-core",
  "futures-sink",
  "futures-util",
- "http",
+ "http 0.2.12",
  "indexmap",
  "slab",
  "tokio",
@@ -1195,6 +1304,17 @@ dependencies = [
  "itoa",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "http"
+version = "1.3.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "f4a85d31aea989eead29a3aaf9e1115a180df8282431156e533de47660892565"
+dependencies = [
+ "bytes",
+ "fnv",
+ "itoa",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "http-body"
 version = "0.4.6"
@@ -1202,10 +1322,20 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "7ceab25649e9960c0311ea418d17bee82c0dcec1bd053b5f9a66e265a693bed2"
 dependencies = [
  "bytes",
- "http",
+ "http 0.2.12",
  "pin-project-lite",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "http-body"
+version = "1.0.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "1efedce1fb8e6913f23e0c92de8e62cd5b772a67e7b3946df930a62566c93184"
+dependencies = [
+ "bytes",
+ "http 1.3.1",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "httparse"
 version = "1.10.1"
@@ -1229,8 +1359,8 @@ dependencies = [
  "futures-core",
  "futures-util",
  "h2",
- "http",
- "http-body",
+ "http 0.2.12",
+ "http-body 0.4.6",
  "httparse",
  "httpdate",
  "itoa",
@@ -1242,6 +1372,18 @@ dependencies = [
  "want",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "hyper"
+version = "1.6.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "cc2b571658e38e0c01b1fdca3bbbe93c00d3d71693ff2770043f8c29bc7d6f80"
+dependencies = [
+ "bytes",
+ "http 1.3.1",
+ "http-body 1.0.1",
+ "tokio",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "hyper-rustls"
 version = "0.24.2"
@@ -1249,9 +1391,9 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "ec3efd23720e2049821a693cbc7e65ea87c72f1c58ff2f9522ff332b1491e590"
 dependencies = [
  "futures-util",
- "http",
- "hyper",
- "rustls",
+ "http 0.2.12",
+ "hyper 0.14.32",
+ "rustls 0.21.12",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-rustls",
 ]
@@ -1450,6 +1592,15 @@ version = "1.70.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "7943c866cc5cd64cbc25b2e01621d07fa8eb2a1a23160ee81ce38704e97b8ecf"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "itertools"
+version = "0.12.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "ba291022dbbd398a455acf126c1e341954079855bc60dfdda641363bd6922569"
+dependencies = [
+ "either",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "itoa"
 version = "1.0.15"
@@ -1491,6 +1642,12 @@ version = "1.5.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "bbd2bcb4c963f2ddae06a2efc7e9f3591312473c50c6685e1f298068316e66fe"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "lazycell"
+version = "1.3.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "830d08ce1d1d941e6b30645f1a0eb5643013d835ce3779a5fc208261dbe10f55"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "libc"
 version = "0.2.172"
@@ -1676,13 +1833,20 @@ version = "0.2.0"
 dependencies = [
  "async-io",
  "async-lock",
+ "async-net",
  "blocking",
  "bstr",
  "futures-lite",
+ "futures-rustls",
+ "hyper 1.6.0",
  "lune-std-serde",
  "lune-utils",
  "mlua",
  "mlua-luau-scheduler",
+ "rustls 0.23.26",
+ "rustls-pki-types",
+ "webpki",
+ "webpki-roots 0.26.8",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1860,6 +2024,12 @@ version = "0.3.17"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "6877bb514081ee2a7ff5ef9de3281f14a4dd4bceac4c09388074a6b5df8a139a"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "minimal-lexical"
+version = "0.2.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "68354c5c6bd36d73ff3feceb05efa59b6acb7626617f4962be322a825e61f79a"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "miniz_oxide"
 version = "0.8.8"
@@ -1951,6 +2121,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "libc",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "nom"
+version = "7.1.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "d273983c5a657a70a3e8f2a01329822f3b8c8172b73826411a55751e404a0a4a"
+dependencies = [
+ "memchr",
+ "minimal-lexical",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "nu-ansi-term"
 version = "0.46.0"
@@ -2185,6 +2365,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "zerocopy 0.8.24",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "prettyplease"
+version = "0.2.32"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "664ec5419c51e34154eec046ebcba56312d5a2fc3b09a06da188e1ad21afadf6"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "syn 2.0.100",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "proc-macro-hack"
 version = "0.5.20+deprecated"
@@ -2513,9 +2703,9 @@ dependencies = [
  "futures-core",
  "futures-util",
  "h2",
- "http",
- "http-body",
- "hyper",
+ "http 0.2.12",
+ "http-body 0.4.6",
+ "hyper 0.14.32",
  "hyper-rustls",
  "ipnet",
  "js-sys",
@@ -2524,7 +2714,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "once_cell",
  "percent-encoding",
  "pin-project-lite",
- "rustls",
+ "rustls 0.21.12",
  "rustls-pemfile",
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
@@ -2538,7 +2728,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "wasm-bindgen",
  "wasm-bindgen-futures",
  "web-sys",
- "webpki-roots",
+ "webpki-roots 0.25.4",
  "winreg 0.50.0",
 ]
 
@@ -2671,10 +2861,25 @@ checksum = "3f56a14d1f48b391359b22f731fd4bd7e43c97f3c50eee276f3aa09c94784d3e"
 dependencies = [
  "log",
  "ring",
- "rustls-webpki",
+ "rustls-webpki 0.101.7",
  "sct",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "rustls"
+version = "0.23.26"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "df51b5869f3a441595eac5e8ff14d486ff285f7b8c0df8770e49c3b56351f0f0"
+dependencies = [
+ "aws-lc-rs",
+ "log",
+ "once_cell",
+ "rustls-pki-types",
+ "rustls-webpki 0.103.1",
+ "subtle",
+ "zeroize",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "rustls-pemfile"
 version = "1.0.4"
@@ -2684,6 +2889,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "base64 0.21.7",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "rustls-pki-types"
+version = "1.11.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "917ce264624a4b4db1c364dcc35bfca9ded014d0a958cd47ad3e960e988ea51c"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "rustls-webpki"
 version = "0.101.7"
@@ -2694,6 +2905,18 @@ dependencies = [
  "untrusted",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "rustls-webpki"
+version = "0.103.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "fef8b8769aaccf73098557a87cd1816b4f9c7c16811c9c77142aa695c16f2c03"
+dependencies = [
+ "aws-lc-rs",
+ "ring",
+ "rustls-pki-types",
+ "untrusted",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "rustversion"
 version = "1.0.20"
@@ -3284,7 +3507,7 @@ version = "0.24.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "c28327cf380ac148141087fbfb9de9d7bd4e84ab5d2c28fbc911d753de8a7081"
 dependencies = [
- "rustls",
+ "rustls 0.21.12",
  "tokio",
 ]
 
@@ -3658,12 +3881,43 @@ dependencies = [
  "wasm-bindgen",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "webpki"
+version = "0.22.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "ed63aea5ce73d0ff405984102c42de94fc55a6b75765d621c65262469b3c9b53"
+dependencies = [
+ "ring",
+ "untrusted",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "webpki-roots"
 version = "0.25.4"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "5f20c57d8d7db6d3b86154206ae5d8fba62dd39573114de97c2cb0578251f8e1"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "webpki-roots"
+version = "0.26.8"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "2210b291f7ea53617fbafcc4939f10914214ec15aace5ba62293a668f322c5c9"
+dependencies = [
+ "rustls-pki-types",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "which"
+version = "4.4.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "87ba24419a2078cd2b0f2ede2691b6c66d8e47836da3b6db8265ebad47afbfc7"
+dependencies = [
+ "either",
+ "home",
+ "once_cell",
+ "rustix 0.38.44",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "winapi"
 version = "0.3.9"
diff --git a/crates/lune-std-net/Cargo.toml b/crates/lune-std-net/Cargo.toml
index a53a8c6..e51d9a1 100644
--- a/crates/lune-std-net/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/lune-std-net/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,9 +18,16 @@ mlua-luau-scheduler = { version = "0.1.0", path = "../mlua-luau-scheduler" }
 
 async-io = "2.4"
 async-lock = "3.4"
+async-net = "2.0"
 blocking = "1.6"
 bstr = "1.9"
 futures-lite = "2.6"
+futures-rustls = "0.26"
+hyper = "1.6"
+rustls = "0.23"
+rustls-pki-types = "1.11"
+webpki = "0.22"
+webpki-roots = "0.26"
 
 lune-utils = { version = "0.2.0", path = "../lune-utils" }
 lune-std-serde = { version = "0.2.0", path = "../lune-std-serde" }
diff --git a/crates/lune-std-net/src/request/mod.rs b/crates/lune-std-net/src/request/mod.rs
index e69de29..683e0b9 100644
--- a/crates/lune-std-net/src/request/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/lune-std-net/src/request/mod.rs
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mod stream;
diff --git a/crates/lune-std-net/src/request/stream.rs b/crates/lune-std-net/src/request/stream.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..79ff928
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/lune-std-net/src/request/stream.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,104 @@
+use std::{
+    io,
+    pin::Pin,
+    sync::{Arc, LazyLock},
+    task::{Context, Poll},
+};
+
+use async_net::TcpStream;
+use futures_lite::prelude::*;
+use futures_rustls::{TlsConnector, TlsStream};
+use hyper::Uri;
+use rustls::ClientConfig;
+use rustls_pki_types::ServerName;
+
+static CLIENT_CONFIG: LazyLock<Arc<ClientConfig>> = LazyLock::new(|| {
+    rustls::ClientConfig::builder()
+        .with_root_certificates(rustls::RootCertStore {
+            roots: webpki_roots::TLS_SERVER_ROOTS.to_vec(),
+        })
+        .with_no_client_auth()
+        .into()
+});
+
+pub enum HttpRequestStream {
+    Plain(TcpStream),
+    Tls(TlsStream<TcpStream>),
+}
+
+impl HttpRequestStream {
+    pub async fn connect(url: Uri) -> Result<Self, io::Error> {
+        let Some(host) = url.host() else {
+            return Err(make_err("unknown or missing host"));
+        };
+        let Some(scheme) = url.scheme_str() else {
+            return Err(make_err("unknown scheme"));
+        };
+
+        let (use_tls, port) = match scheme {
+            "http" => (false, 80),
+            "https" => (true, 443),
+            s => return Err(make_err(format!("unsupported scheme: {s}"))),
+        };
+
+        let stream = {
+            let port = url.port_u16().unwrap_or(port);
+            TcpStream::connect((host, port)).await?
+        };
+
+        let stream = if use_tls {
+            let servname = ServerName::try_from(host).map_err(make_err)?.to_owned();
+            let connector = TlsConnector::from(Arc::clone(&CLIENT_CONFIG));
+            let stream = connector.connect(servname, stream).await?;
+            Self::Tls(TlsStream::Client(stream))
+        } else {
+            Self::Plain(stream)
+        };
+
+        Ok(stream)
+    }
+}
+
+impl AsyncRead for HttpRequestStream {
+    fn poll_read(
+        mut self: Pin<&mut Self>,
+        cx: &mut Context<'_>,
+        buf: &mut [u8],
+    ) -> Poll<io::Result<usize>> {
+        match &mut *self {
+            HttpRequestStream::Plain(stream) => Pin::new(stream).poll_read(cx, buf),
+            HttpRequestStream::Tls(stream) => Pin::new(stream).poll_read(cx, buf),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl AsyncWrite for HttpRequestStream {
+    fn poll_write(
+        mut self: Pin<&mut Self>,
+        cx: &mut Context<'_>,
+        buf: &[u8],
+    ) -> Poll<io::Result<usize>> {
+        match &mut *self {
+            HttpRequestStream::Plain(stream) => Pin::new(stream).poll_write(cx, buf),
+            HttpRequestStream::Tls(stream) => Pin::new(stream).poll_write(cx, buf),
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn poll_close(mut self: Pin<&mut Self>, cx: &mut Context<'_>) -> Poll<io::Result<()>> {
+        match &mut *self {
+            HttpRequestStream::Plain(stream) => Pin::new(stream).poll_close(cx),
+            HttpRequestStream::Tls(stream) => Pin::new(stream).poll_close(cx),
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn poll_flush(mut self: Pin<&mut Self>, cx: &mut Context<'_>) -> Poll<io::Result<()>> {
+        match &mut *self {
+            HttpRequestStream::Plain(stream) => Pin::new(stream).poll_flush(cx),
+            HttpRequestStream::Tls(stream) => Pin::new(stream).poll_flush(cx),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+fn make_err(e: impl ToString) -> io::Error {
+    io::Error::new(io::ErrorKind::Other, e.to_string())
+}