Fast HTTP Parser using picohttpparser.

This module parse HTTP request and inserts variables into Hash. For the name of the variables inserted, please refer to the Rack specification

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'pico_http_parser'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install pico_http_parser

require 'pico_http_parser'

request_body = <<REQ
GET /blakjsdfkas HTTP/1.1\r
Host: blooperblorp\r
Cookie: blah=woop\r
\r
REQ
env = {}
ret = PicoHTTPParser.parse_http_request(request_body,env)

The return values are:

length of the request (request line and the request headers), in bytes

given request is corrupt

given request is incomplete

On my Macbook Air

$ ruby benchmark.rb
Calculating -------------------------------------
      PicoHTTPParser    13.655k i/100ms
Unicorn's HttpParser    11.554k i/100ms
-------------------------------------------------
      PicoHTTPParser    155.331k (¡Þ 3.7%) i/s -    778.335k
Unicorn's HttpParser    127.455k (¡Þ 3.5%) i/s -    647.024k

Comparison:
      PicoHTTPParser:   155331.2 i/s
Unicorn's HttpParser:   127455.1 i/s - 1.22x slower

PicoHTTPParser is created based on Perl's HTTP::Parser::XS.

https://metacpan.org/pod/HTTP::Parser::XS

This module uses picohttpparser

https://github.com/h2o/picohttpparser

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/kazeburo/pico_http_parser/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request