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LibHTP


Copyright 2009-2010 Open Information Security Foundation
Copyright 2010-2013 Qualys, Inc.


LibHTP is a security-aware parser for the HTTP protocol and the related bits and pieces. The goal of the project is mainly to support the Suricata use case. Other use cases might not be fully supported, and we encourage you to cover these.

See the LICENSE file distributed with this work for information regarding licensing, copying and copyright ownership.

Usage

Start using libHTP by including it in your project's Cargo.toml dependencies. The base library will also be required for using common types.

The minimum supported version of rustc is 1.58.1.

Example

[dependencies]
htp = "2.0.0"

FFI Support

LibHTP has a foreign function interface for use in C/C++ projects. FFI Support can be enabled by building with the cbindgen feature.

# Install cbindgen which is required to generate headers
cargo install --force cbindgen

# Build headers and shared objects
make

LICENSE

LibHTP is licensed under the BSD 3-Clause license (also known as "BSD New" and "BSD Simplified".) The complete text of the license is enclosed in the file LICENSE.

Dependencies

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