Protocol::HTTP - very fast HTTP protocol incremental parser and serializer
use Protocol::HTTP; # client api - make request my $request = Protocol::HTTP::Request->new({ uri => "http://crazypanda.ru/hello/world", headers => {MyHeader => "my value"}, cookies => {coo1 => "val1", coo2 => "val2"}, body => "my body", }); my $req_str = $request->to_string; # => like qr|GET /hello/world HTTP/1.1| # server api - parse request my ($state, $position, $error); my $req_parser = Protocol::HTTP::RequestParser->new; ($request, $state, $position, $error) = $req_parser->parse($req_str); if ($state == Protocol::HTTP::Message::STATE_DONE) { say $request->uri; say $request->method; say $request->body; } # server api - make response my $response = Protocol::HTTP::Response->new({ code => 200, headers => {Lang => 'Perl'}, body => "Lorem ipsum dolor", }); my $res_str = $response->to_string($request); # client api - parse response my $res_parser = Protocol::HTTP::ResponseParser->new; $res_parser->set_context_request($request); ($response, $state, $position, $error) = $res_parser->parse($res_str); say $response->code; say $response->status; say $response->body; # compression with chunks use Protocol::HTTP::Request 'METHOD_POST'; $request = Protocol::HTTP::Request->new({ method => METHOD_POST, uri => "https://images.example.com/upload", chunked => 1, compress => Protocol::HTTP::Compression::gzip, }); say $request->to_string; # only http headers say $request->make_chunk('hello-world'); # outputs first chunk say $request->final_chunk(); # outputs final chunk # cookies jar (for user-agents aka HTTP-clients) my $jar = Protocol::HTTP::CookieJar->new; $jar->populate($request); # before request sent $jar->collect($response); # after response is received
The Protocol::HTTP is a port of panda::protocol::http library, an RFC-compiant very fast HTTP protocol implementation, written in C++ with XS-adapters in perl. The module has dual Perl/C++ interface (see XS::Manifesto) so futher XS-bindings can be written on the top of Protocol::HTTP.
Protocol::HTTP
panda::protocol::http
The following features are supported in the Protocol::HTTP: cookies, transparent (un)compression with Gzip or Brotli, transparent chunked transfer encoding for body streaming, respecting request's preferences when making response.
Gzip
Brotli
The module is a protocol implementation, by itself it does not perform any I/O activity.
Currenly supported HTTP versions are 1.0 and 1.1
Protocol::HTTP::Request
Protocol::HTTP::Response
Protocol::HTTP::Message
Protocol::HTTP::RequestParser
Protocol::HTTP::ResponseParser
Protocol::HTTP::Compression
Protocol::HTTP::Error
Protocol::HTTP::CookieJar
The error category that all of Protocol::HTTP::Error errors have.
Tests were performed on Xeon v3 2.9Ghz, Debian 10.
We can't make a fair benchmark because Protocol::HTTP is a complete HTTP protocol solution, while HTTP::Parser::XS only parses http header.
Nevertheless, <Protocol::HTTP> still runs significantly faster.
Benchmark script can be found in misc/bench.pl
misc/bench.pl
==================== request with few headers Rate HTTP::Parser HTTP::Parser::XS Protocol::HTTP HTTP::Parser 19548/s -- -97% -99% HTTP::Parser::XS 601510/s 2977% -- -57% Protocol::HTTP 1390157/s 7011% 131% -- ==================== request with many headers Rate HTTP::Parser HTTP::Parser::XS Protocol::HTTP HTTP::Parser 7657/s -- -97% -98% HTTP::Parser::XS 240040/s 3035% -- -53% Protocol::HTTP 508970/s 6547% 112% -- ==================== response with many headers Rate HTTP::Parser HTTP::Parser::XS Protocol::HTTP HTTP::Parser 8295/s -- -97% -98% HTTP::Parser::XS 289616/s 3391% -- -45% Protocol::HTTP 529329/s 6281% 83% -- ==================== response with many headers and 10KB body (only for Protocol::HTTP) timethis for 1: 1 wallclock secs ( 1.08 usr + 0.00 sys = 1.08 CPU) @ 424769.44/s (n=458751)
Protocol::HTTP::Compression::Brotli
URI::XS
Protocol::WebSocket::Fast
rfc2616 (http 1.1)
rfc6265 (HTTP State Management Mechanism)
rfc7932 (brotli compression)
rfc1952 (gzip compression)
Same-Site Cookies draft
Pronin Oleg <syber@cpan.org>
Ivan Baidakou <dmol@cpan.org>
Grigory Smorkalov <g.smorkalov@crazypanda.ru>
Andrew Selivanov <andrew.selivanov@gmail.com>
Crazy Panda LTD
You may distribute this code under the same terms as Perl itself.
To install Protocol::HTTP, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Protocol::HTTP
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Protocol::HTTP
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.