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HTTP Parser
===========
This is a parser for HTTP messages written in C. It parses both requests
and responses. The parser is designed to be used in performance HTTP
applications. It does not make any allocations, it does not buffer data, and
it can be interrupted at anytime. Depending on your architecture, it only
requires between 100 and 200 bytes of data per message stream (in a web
server that is per connection).
This is a parser for HTTP messages written in C. It parses both requests and
responses. The parser is designed to be used in performance HTTP
applications. It does not make any syscalls nor allocations, it does not
buffer data, it can be interrupted at anytime. Depending on your
architecture, it only requires between 100 and 200 bytes of data per message
stream (in a web server that is per connection).
Features:
* No dependencies
* Parses both requests and responses.
* Handles persistent streams.
* Handles persistent streams (keep-alive).
* Decodes chunked encoding.
* Extracts the following data from a message
* header fields and values
* content-length
* request method
* response status code
* transfer-encoding
* http version
* request path, query string, fragment
* message body
* Defends against buffer overflow attacks.
* Upgrade support
* Defends against buffer overflow attacks.
The parser extracts the following information from HTTP messages:
* Header fields and values
* Content-Length
* Request method
* Response status code
* Transfer-Encoding
* HTTP version
* Request path, query string, fragment
* Message body
Usage
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}
/* Start up / continue the parser.
* Note we pass the recved==0 to http_parse_requests to signal
* that EOF has been recieved.
* Note we pass recved==0 to signal that EOF has been recieved.
*/
nparsed = http_parser_execute(parser, &settings, buf, recved);
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transparently. That is, a chunked encoding is decoded before being sent to
the on_body callback.
It does not decode the content-encoding (gzip). Not all HTTP applications
need to inspect the body. Decoding gzip is non-neglagable amount of
processing (and requires making allocations). HTTP proxies using this
parser, for example, would not want such a feature.
The Special Problem of Upgrade
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To support this, the parser will treat this as a normal HTTP message without a
body. Issuing both on_headers_complete and on_message_complete callbacks. However
http_parser_execute() may finish without parsing the entire supplied buffer.
http_parser_execute() will stop parsing at the end of the headers and return.
The user needs to check if parser->upgrade has been set to 1 after
http_parser_execute() returns to determine if a premature exit was due to an
upgrade or an error.
The user is expected to check if `parser->upgrade` has been set to 1 after
`http_parser_execute()` returns. Non-HTTP data begins at the buffer supplied
offset by the return value of `http_parser_execute()`.
Callbacks
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| | | and append callback data to it |
------------------------ ------------ --------------------------------------------
See examples of reading in headers:
* [partial example](http://gist.github.com/155877) in C

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