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		pjscott on Jan 3, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: All Node.js servers are vulnerable to DoS A look at node's HTTP parsing code, 1500 lines of hand-coded and rather pretty C, makes it clear that Ryan Dahl cares a lot about HTTP in node doing the Right Thing. https://github.com/joyent/http-parser/blob/master/http_parse... (This is also very handy for people writing HTTP servers and clients in other languages, since it's independent of node, and really fast and feature-complete.)

csytan on Jan 3, 2012 [–]

I don't think Dahl takes credit for all of this code:

"Based on src/http/ngx_http_parse.c from NGINX copyright Igor Sysoev"

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