Parsing HTTP requests

Question

When dealing with the requests of type

GET /someFile.txt HTTP/1.1

Is there a library that will help you find /someFile.txt with ease, or is it common to manually split and parse things? No big deal, just wondering.

message.split("\\s+")[1] // works but just looks silly

miken32 · Accepted Answer · 2025-05-01 17:18:10Z

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If you're on the server (servlet container) side, HttpServletRequest.getPathInfo should do the job.

edited May 1 at 17:18

miken32

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answered Apr 23, 2012 at 19:01

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