HTTP Parser VS node

It looks not too different from the majority of HTTP parsers out there written in C. Here is an example of NodeJS [0].

[0] https://github.com/nodejs/http-parser/blob/main/http_parser....

NodeJS's HTTP parser used to be a handwritten C lib: http-parser

Whoa, I didn't know that! But yeah, it seems like https://github.com/nodejs/http-parser is based on nginx. It now uses https://github.com/nodejs/llhttp but has some of the same legacy.

On the other hand, deno's HTTP stuff is built on top of Hyper, a Rust library https://github.com/hyperium/hyper

Boost.Beast has its own HTTP parser[0], during the development of which Vinnie Falco (the principle author of Beast) found many bugs/inconsistencies in Node.js's own parser[1]

[0] https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/develop/libs/beast/doc/html/b...

[1] https://github.com/nodejs/http-parser/issues?q=is%3Aissue+au...

For cases where it is necessary to pass local information to/from a callback, the http_parser object's data field can be used.

Legacy HTTP/1.1 suffers a few issues, see the current RFC errata:

https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=7230&rec_st...

There are issues particularly around how whitespace and obsolete line folding should be handled

https://github.com/nodejs/http-parser/issues?q=is%3Aissue+wh...

https://github.com/httpwg/http-core/issues/53

It's not as trivial as a few string splits.

There's picohttpparser and the one used in node.js: https://github.com/nodejs/http-parser

Node.js

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A working Node.js v20+ environment

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