Unsafe at Any Speed: Tradeoffs and Values in the Rust Ecosystem

• httparse

  5 537 5.8 Rust

  A push parser for the HTTP 1.x protocol in Rust.

> or even just skipping blank lines, hyper does things its own way.

Ugh. IMO a bit benefit of Rust is that you can’t do wild-west-YOLO buffer twiddling without “unsafe,” so people will write better code.

But it really looks like httparse missed the memo.

https://github.com/seanmonstar/httparse/blob/v1.8.0/src/iter...

iter::Bytes looks like an awkward wrapper around slices with all the safety removed. So you can port nasty C-style code right over.

Seriously, it should not be hard to efficiently strip a prefix off a u8 slice in safe Rust. For example, split_first.

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