httplike

node.js package for parsing http-like protocols

IMPORTANT NOTE - TYPESCRIPT FORK

This is a fork of stephen/httplike that @jabooth undertook for fun in Dec 2016. I moved httplike and a handful of other projects to Typescript and placed them under a new namespace at github/homeaudio in an effort to better understand and rapidly improve all these interrelated projects.

For now I'm maintaining my forks at github/homeaudio, but I would be delighted if these forks were re-unified with their original projects at some point. Given the extensive nature of the changes made though, I understand that this may be challenging for the original authors.

Installation

npm install @homeaudio/httplike

Usage

import { ServerParser } from 'httplike'
const p = new Parser(socket)
p.on('message', (msg) => {
  console.log(msg.method)
  console.log(msg.headers)
  console.log(msg.content)
})

Protocol Assumptions

httplike assumes that the incoming protocol follows HTTP standards on using the Content-Length header to determine how many bytes to wait for in a response body.

Changelog

2.0.0

• Migration to Typescript
• Adoption of ES2015+ style and features
• New fork maintained at @homeaudio for now
• headers should be set and accessed using server.headers[KEY] = VALUE - this is now typesafe, so the setHeader method is retired for this cleaner API.
• numerous small API changes - these will be properly documented in a future release
• tests are currently present but broken

1.0.1

• Fixed parsing involving UTF-8 characters (PR #8), and potential stall in pipelined requests (PR #9)

1.0.0

• Removed parseHeader from public interface on ClientParser and ServerParser

0.0.9

• Removed dependency on lodash

0.0.7

• Implemented built-in response object modeled after express.js response.
• Added trim() to method and headers

0.0.5

• Breaking changes to how headers are accessed (getHeader() function instead of headers[]). See tests for example usage.