request.md

webserv

Request Class

The main purpose of this class is:

Buffered reading from the socket using recv.

Parse the read request in three main steps:

• Parsing the start line.
• Parsing the header fields.
• Parsing the body/payload if existing.

While parsing it will catch HTTP errors with the checkers:

• checkStartLine()
• checkValueSize(key, value) for URI length check
• checkHeaderFields()

If an error is thrown it is catched and saved in a variable of the response instance _response._requestParsingError. It will stop parsing and set the variable isRead to true in order to be able to meet the condition in ServerManager to get the response._

Utilites

• URLDecode() decodes URI from path.
• doesKeyExist() checks for given key in the map, if not found throws the error passed as parameter.
• checkBoundary() extracts boundary from content-type and looks for it in the payload.