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HTTP Parser
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eBPF will help solve service mesh by getting rid of sidecars
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....
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C in Web Dev
NodeJS's HTTP parser used to be a handwritten C lib: http-parser
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The history and reasons behind CORS, and how to use it
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
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A Universal I/O Abstraction for C++ (2020)
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...
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How to pass ownership of std::function object to function pointer?
For cases where it is necessary to pass local information to/from a callback, the http_parser object's data field can be used.
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Plain Text Protocols
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.
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Looking for good http parser in C++ or C
There's picohttpparser and the one used in node.js: https://github.com/nodejs/http-parser
value-category-cheatsheet
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Distinction between lvalue and rvalue references
Here is a great summary: https://github.com/jeaye/value-category-cheatsheet/blob/master/value-category-cheatsheet.pdf
What are some alternatives?
llhttp - Port of http_parser to llparse
American Fuzzy Lop - american fuzzy lop - a security-oriented fuzzer
C++ Format - A modern formatting library
stb - stb single-file public domain libraries for C/C++
semver.c - Semantic version in ANSI C
ZXing - ZXing ("Zebra Crossing") barcode scanning library for Java, Android
PHP CPP - Library to build PHP extensions with C++
stdman - Formatted C++20 stdlib man pages (cppreference)
Serial Communication Library - Cross-platform, Serial Port library written in C++