diff --git a/proxmox-http/Cargo.toml b/proxmox-http/Cargo.toml
index f3a554b2..0d633f7d 100644
--- a/proxmox-http/Cargo.toml
+++ b/proxmox-http/Cargo.toml
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ proxmox-lang = { path = "../proxmox-lang", optional = true, version = "1.1" }
 default = []
 
 client = [ "futures", "http-helpers", "hyper/full", "openssl", "tokio/io-util", "tokio-openssl" ]
+client-trait = [ "http" ]
 http-helpers = [ "base64", "http", "proxmox-sys", "serde_json", "url" ]
 websocket = [
     "base64",
diff --git a/proxmox-http/src/client_trait.rs b/proxmox-http/src/client_trait.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..bcefa8f9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/proxmox-http/src/client_trait.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+use anyhow::Error;
+use http::Response;
+
+pub trait HttpClient<T> {
+    fn get(&self, uri: &str) -> Result<Response<T>, Error>;
+
+    fn post(
+        &self,
+        uri: &str,
+        body: Option<String>,
+        content_type: Option<&str>,
+    ) -> Result<Response<T>, Error>;
+}
diff --git a/proxmox-http/src/lib.rs b/proxmox-http/src/lib.rs
index 9a8a6350..55c5d346 100644
--- a/proxmox-http/src/lib.rs
+++ b/proxmox-http/src/lib.rs
@@ -13,3 +13,8 @@ pub use proxy_config::ProxyConfig;
 
 #[cfg(feature = "client")]
 pub mod client;
+
+#[cfg(feature = "client-trait")]
+mod client_trait;
+#[cfg(feature = "client-trait")]
+pub use client_trait::HttpClient;