Module parse

General parsing complying to the HTTP standards.

This parses small bits of a HTTP request/response to extract common information. The sanitize_request exists to check if a request is valid.

This is where part of Layer 6 resides. The list_header and query are very useful.

Structs

• CacheControl
  Directives to limit cache lifetime, read from cache-control and kvarn-cache-control headers.
• CriticalRequestComponents
  Critical components from request to apply to response.
• Query
  A set of QueryPairs, parsed from a query.
• QueryPair
  A key-value pair in the query.
• QueryPairIter
  An iterator of the values of a name in a Query. Created by Query::get_all.
• ValueQualitySet
  A pair of a value string and a quality of said value.

Enums

• CacheControlError
  An error with parsing CacheControl.
• Error
  A general error from parsing.
• RequestParseStage
  Stages of parsing a HTTP Request.
• SanitizeError
  An error regarding the sanitization of a request.

Functions

• headers
  Formats headers and returns the bytes from the start of bytes where the body starts; how many bytes the header occupy.
• list_header
  Parses a header with a value-quality list of pairs.
• query
  Parses a query to a map between keys and their values, as specified in the query.
• sanitize_request
  Sanitizes request for unwanted data and returns critical components.