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http-parser
C2012–2021
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http-parser

http request/response parser for c

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

http request/response parser for c

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 6:01:08 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year15 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2012-01-03 19:04:45 UTC to 2021-12-09 20:22:38 UTC.

012342012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20122013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2021

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404

What Hacker News says

3 sources
jacobr·Aug 20, 2013
> To make a long story short: very old versions of http_parser were based on a Ragel grammar but the handwritten version outperformed it by a significant margin, as in over 10% fewer branches taken. > Ragel is great but it can't take shortcuts like a human programmer can and once you start jumping around in your grammar, things become complicated fast (and impossible to debug.) https://github.com/joyent/http-parser/pull/156#issuecomment-...
In Node.js incorrectly parses HTTP methods
zimbatm·May 12, 2013
That's exactly the kind of attitude I am trying to warn against. I have encountered times and times again people with that exact same attitude but I have yet to see HTTP implementation that don't get bug fixes years after their start. From my experience, even an implementation with limited scope will need at least a year to fully stabilize. Just point me to one and I'll be happy to revise my judgement. EDIT: As an example the http_parser in nodejs. It's just a small part of the whole but still had bug fixes a year after nodejs started. I don't have access to the repo right now (GH is down) but here is the source: https://github.com/joyent/http-parser
In HTTP as Imagined versus HTTP as Found

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