diff net/http/parser.lua @ 14086:79a6598cef0b 13.0

net.http.parser: Fix handling of chunked request How to determine whether a request/response has a body depends on different things for requests and responses, which was not reflected in the code. Test case based on curl http://localhost:5280/debug -H "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" --json '{"json":true}' Thanks isafashiondev
author Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se>
date Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:08:03 +0100
parents 977d92aff563
children 948bda5ed45f
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--- a/net/http/parser.lua	Fri Feb 13 14:54:57 2026 +0100
+++ b/net/http/parser.lua	Fri Feb 20 15:08:03 2026 +0100
@@ -93,9 +93,12 @@
 						end
 					end
 					if not first_line then error = true; return error_cb("invalid-status-line"); end
-					chunked = have_body and headers["transfer-encoding"] == "chunked";
 					len = tonumber(headers["content-length"]); -- TODO check for invalid len
 					if client then
+						-- The presence of a message body in a response, as detailed in Section 6.3, depends on both the request method to which it is responding
+						-- and the response status code.
+						-- -- RFC9112 Section 6
+						chunked = have_body and headers["transfer-encoding"] == "chunked";
 						-- FIXME handle '100 Continue' response (by skipping it)
 						if not have_body then len = 0; end
 						packet = {
@@ -111,6 +114,11 @@
 							responseheaders = headers;
 						};
 					else
+						-- The presence of a message body in a request is signaled by a Content-Length or Transfer-Encoding header field. Request message framing
+						-- is independent of method semantics.
+						-- -- RFC9112 Section 6
+						chunked = headers["transfer-encoding"] == "chunked";
+						have_body = chunked or len;
 						local parsed_url;
 						if path:byte() == 47 then -- starts with /
 							local _path, _query = path:match("([^?]*).?(.*)");