mirek wrote on Wed, 11 May 2016 19:40

For years, there is a superior alternative in Core, HttpRequest. It can handle much more of http and is (if needed) async.

Yes, I was aware of the HttpRequest alternative. But HttpQuery represented slightly different functionality. It gave a number of useful routines for URL parsing. I used it in http server code to parse URL variables of incoming http request.

		while (!shutdown)
		{
			if (server->IsError())
			{
				server.Clear();
				server.Create().Listen(answerPort,100);
				Sleep(200);
			}
			TcpSocket socket;
			socket.Timeout(2000);
			if (!socket.Accept(*server))
			{
				Sleep(50);
				continue;
			}
			
			HttpHeader http;
			http.Read(socket);
			int len = static_cast<int>(http.GetContentLength());
			if (len > 0)
				socket.GetAll(len);
			
			HttpQuery query(http.GetURI());
			
			String rq = query.GetString("RQ"); // this is where HttpQuery is actually used
		
			if (rq == "REQ1")
			{
			}
			else if (rq == "REQ2")
			{
			}
			else if (rq == "REQ3")
			{
			}
...

void Http::ParseRequest(const char *p)
{
	while(*p) {
		const char *last = p;
		while(*p && *p != '=' && *p != '&')
			p++;
		String key = UrlDecode(last, p);
		if(*p == '=')
			p++;
		last = p;
		while(*p && *p != '&')
			p++;
		if(*key != '.' && *key != '@') {
			if(key.EndsWith("[]")) {
				Value &v = var.GetAdd(key);
				if(v.IsNull())
					v = ValueArray();
				(ValueArray &)v << UrlDecode(last, p);
			}
			else
				var.GetAdd(key) = UrlDecode(last, p);
		}
		if(*p)
			p++;
	}
}