Header Functions
The Traffic Server API HTTP header functions enable you to work with HTTP header data stored in marshal buffers.
The HTTP header data structure is a parsed version of the HTTP header defined in the HTTP protocol specification. An HTTP header is composed of a request or response line followed by zero or more MIME fields. In fact, an HTTP header is a subclass of a MIME header; all of the MIME header routines operate on HTTP headers.
An HTTP request line is composed of a method, a URL, and version. A response line is composed of a version, status code, and reason phrase. See About HTTP Headers for additional details and examples.
To facilitate fast comparisons and reduce storage size, Traffic Server defines several pre-allocated method names. These names correspond to the methods defined in the HTTP 1.1 specification
TS_HTTP_METHOD_CONNECT“CONNECT”
TS_HTTP_METHOD_DELETE“DELETE”
TS_HTTP_METHOD_GE“GET”
TS_HTTP_METHOD_HEAD“HEAD”
TS_HTTP_METHOD_OPTIONS“OPTIONS”
TS_HTTP_METHOD_POST“POST”
TS_HTTP_METHOD_PURGE“PURGE”
TS_HTTP_METHOD_PUT“PUT”
TS_HTTP_METHOD_TRACE“TRACE”
TS_HTTP_METHOD_PUSH“PUSH”
Traffic Server also defines several common values that appear in HTTP headers.
TS_HTTP_VALUE_BYTES“bytes”
TS_HTTP_VALUE_CHUNKED“chunked”
TS_HTTP_VALUE_CLOSE“close”
TS_HTTP_VALUE_COMPRESS“compress”
TS_HTTP_VALUE_DEFLATE“deflate”
TS_HTTP_VALUE_GZIP“gzip”
TS_HTTP_VALUE_IDENTITY“identity”
TS_HTTP_VALUE_KEEP_ALIVE“keep-alive”
TS_HTTP_VALUE_MAX_AGE“max-age”
TS_HTTP_VALUE_MAX_STALE“max-stale”
TS_HTTP_VALUE_MIN_FRESH“min-fresh”
TS_HTTP_VALUE_MUST_REVALIDATE“must-revalidate”
TS_HTTP_VALUE_NONE“none”
TS_HTTP_VALUE_NO_CACHE“no-cache”
TS_HTTP_VALUE_NO_STORE“no-store”
TS_HTTP_VALUE_NO_TRANSFORM“no-transform”
TS_HTTP_VALUE_ONLY_IF_CACHED“only-if-cached”
TS_HTTP_VALUE_PRIVATE“private”
TS_HTTP_VALUE_PROXY_REVALIDATE“proxy-revalidate”
TS_HTTP_VALUE_PUBLIC“public”
TS_HTTP_VALUE_S_MAX_AGE“s-maxage”
The method names and header values above are defined in ts.h as
const char* strings. When Traffic Server sets a method or a header
value, it checks to make sure that the new value is one of the known
values. If it is, then it stores a pointer into a global table (instead
of storing the known value in the marshal buffer). The method names and
header values listed above are also pointers into this table. This
allows simple pointer comparison of the value returned from
TSHttpMethodGet with one of the values listed above. It is also
recommended that you use the above values when referring to one of the
known schemes, since this removes the possibility of a spelling error.
The HTTP Header Functions are listed below: