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Boost.Beast has its own HTTP parser[0], during the development of which Vinnie Falco (the principle author of Beast) found many bugs/inconsistencies in Node.js's own parser[1].

Personally I'd rather use this than something based on Node.js http-parser.

[0] https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/develop/libs/beast/doc/html/b...

[1] https://github.com/nodejs/http-parser/issues?q=is%3Aissue+au...

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We actually use the original node.js parser code (http_parser), which was originally based _I believe_ on the nginx parser. The Node people have since moved on to generating the C parser code with Typescript because the original code was too difficult to maintain (llparse).

Like I said, human-readable HTTP needs to die, but it's far too late.

llhttp different from the original http-parser. It has lesser bugs because it's written in Typescript which transpiled to C and it's faster than the original http-parser

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