用于 http 标头解析的 C 正则表达式库

Question

I have a program that has a buffer containing http data captured from the wire. The buffer would contain both http header and html. Using C program is there a way to parse the http header? Iam not really interested in html. I have seen other examples as shown in Regex HTTP header parsing , however, Iam looking at using some existing library (to be used in C) that can simply parse the header and give me each field.

My requirements are: - To just peep into the buffer and check if its http payload - If its http payload then run a regex parser to get all fields of http header.

Is there code out there which I can check? Does anyone know of any library?

Regards, bgun

Answer 1

Library http-parser should serve you well.

If you want to parse some simple regexes, I would recommend very small and robust C regex parser SLRE - Super Light Regular Expression library. It consists of only one header file and one source file written in standard C, which you can link to your project.

It supports quite usable subset of standard regular expressions:

\\d , \\w , \\s , \\S (non-whitespace), * (match 0 or more), + (match 1 or more), () for groups. It don't think it supports nested groups, but I always was able to get by without them.

Answer 2

Well if it's an http payload the first 5 characters should be "HTTP/". If that's not the beginning of the response then you can assume it's not an http response. If it is and all you care about are the headers, then you simply need to continue receiving data until the first "\\r\\n\\r\\n". From there if you must separate the header name from the values, it's as simple as using the first colon on each line as the delimeter.