This saves space in the structure (it is now 28 bytes on x86), and
makes the handling of content_length more consistent between chunked
encoding and non-chunked-encoding.
This fixes a possible issue where a very large body (one that involves
> 80*1024 calls to http_parser_execute) will cause the next request
with that parser to return an error because it believes that this is
an overflow condition.
The *_mark members were actually being used as just boolean values to
the next call of the parser. However, you can calculate if the mark
members should be set or not purely based on the current state, so
they can just be gotten rid of entirely.
This is mostly done by using sized types instead of enums, and
reordering fields to allow better packing.
I also moved the 'upgrade' field out of the PRIVATE section and into
the READ-ONLY section, as I believe that it is supposed to be
non-private.
This does have some slight functional changes in cases where
MAX_FIELD_SIZE is hit, specficially if a URL is made up of many
components, each of which is smaller than MAX_FIELD_SIZE, but the
total together is greater than MAX_FIELD_SIZE, then we now might not
call callbacks for any of the components (even the ones that are
smaller than 80kb). With the old code, it was possible to get a
callback for query_string and never get a callback for the URL (or at
least the end of the URL that is past 80kb), if the callback for the
URL would have been larger than 80kb.
(to be honest, I'm surprised that the MAX_FIELD_SIZE is implemented in
http_parser at all, instead of requiring that callers pay attention to
it, as it feels like it should be the caller's responsibility)
That is, for a request parser do this:
http_parser_init(my_parser, HTTP_REQUEST)
for a response parser do this:
http_parser_init(my_parser, HTTP_RESPONSE)
Then http_parse_requests() and http_parse_responses() both turn
into http_parer_execute().
This sacrifices
- a little space (10 bytes),
- a few extra calculations, and
- introduces a dependency on strncmp()
to dramatically simplify the code of parsing methods and support almost
arbitrary extension methods.
In the future I will do as NGINX does and not use strncmp but bit level
blob comparisons.
Cliff Frey
Ryan Dahl