As was pointed out by the cppcheck[0] static code analysis utility we
can mark numerous function parameters as 'const'. This acts as a hint to
the compiler about our intentions and the compiler will tell us when we
deviate from them.
[0]: https://cppcheck.sourceforge.io/
Previously, all requests that contained in header field names characters other
than alphanumeric, or "-", or "_" were rejected with a 400 "Bad Request" error
response.
Now, the parser allows the same set of characters as specified in RFC 7230,
including: "!", "#", "$", "%", "&", "'", "*", "+", ".", "^", "`", "|", and "~".
Header field names that contain only these characters are considered valid.
Also, there's a new option introduced: "discard_unsafe_fields". It accepts
boolean value and it is set to "true" by default.
When this option is "true", all header field names that contain characters
in valid range, but other than alphanumeric or "-" are skipped during parsing.
When the option is "false", these header fields aren't skipped.
Requests with non-valid characters in header field names according to
RFC 7230 are rejected regardless of "discard_unsafe_fields" setting.
This closes#422 issue on GitHub.
This is required due to lack of a graceful shutdown: there is a small gap
between the runtime's memory pool release and router process's exit. Thus, a
worker thread may start processing a request between these two operations,
which may result in an http fields hash access and subsequent crash.
To simplify issue reproduction, it makes sense to add a 2 sec sleep before
exit() in nxt_runtime_exit().
This field was intended for MIME type lookup by file extension when serving
static files, but this use case is too narrow; only a fraction of requests
targets static content, and the URI presumably isn't rewritten. Moreover,
current implementation uses the entire filename for MIME type lookup if the
file has no extension.
Instead of extracting filenames and extensions when parsing requests, it's
easier to obtain them right before serving static content; this behavior is
already implemented. Thus, we can drop excessive logic from parser.
