Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] Pion's HTTPParser

[Michael D. <mi...@mi...>]

Update: Mignon just committed into trunk (r339) support for parsing  
chunks, either in request or response content, for our synchronous  
HTTPMessage::receive() calls and also for the asynchronous HTTP*Reader  
classes.

Take care,
-Mike

On Dec 10, 2007, at 6:40 PM, Michael Dickey wrote:

> Dean and I have been talking on the boost development list about  
> ways to integrate Pion code into the current cpp-netlib structure.   
> Seemed like a good idea to move that discussion over to this list  
> instead.
>
> I think that the best starting point would be to focus on merging  
> over Pion's HTTPParser class:
>
> http://pion.atomiclabs.com/files/pion-net/net/doc/html/_h_t_t_p_parser_8hpp-source.html
> http://pion.atomiclabs.com/files/pion-net/net/doc/html/_h_t_t_p_parser_8cpp-source.html
>
> It's an incremental parser that can be used for both 1.0 and 1.1,  
> and also for both requests and responses.  It seems like you could  
> just reformat & rename it for boost's style standards, remove the  
> logging support, and use cpp-netlib's http::request and  
> http::response classes in favor of Pion's HTTPRequest and  
> HTTPResponse (so long as they support the same functionality).
>
> FYI: one major thing currently missing in the parser is being able  
> to parse HTTP/1.1 chunks.  This is supported in the "Writer" classes  
> (see below) but not in our underlying parsing code.  Someone is  
> working on this right now actually, and we will probably have it in  
> there by the end of the week.
> ...