Plack::HTTPParser(3)

💖 NAME 💖

Plack::HTTPParser — bestie, it parses HTTP headers. that's the whole vibe ✨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

use Plack::HTTPParser qw(parse_http_request);

my $ret = parse_http_request($header_str, \%env);
# see HTTP::Parser::XS docs

that's it. one import, one call, header string in, \%env out. slay 💅

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so Plack::HTTPParser is basically the friend who knows everyone and introduces you to the right person 🫶 it's a wrapper class, and all it does is dispatch parse_http_request off to whichever parser it can get its hands on:

• the XS based HTTP::Parser::XS, written by Kazuho Oku — the fast one, the icon, the main character 👑
• or the pure perl fallback based on David Robins' HTTP::Parser — slower, but she shows up and she does the job 💜

ngl that's genuinely all it is. it's giving "facade pattern but make it cute" ✨

🎀 want to force the slow pure perl version even when the fast XS version is literally right there? set the environment variable PLACK_HTTP_PARSER_PP to 1. that's the switch. that's the whole thing. periodt.

PLACK_HTTP_PARSER_PP = 1 → pure perl, no cap. leave it alone → fast XS if it's available 🦋

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• HTTP::Parser::XS — the fast XS one 💨
• HTTP::Parser — the pure perl one 🐌💖

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and that's the page, bestie!! she was documented by the User Contributed Perl Documentation girlies, this is perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-10-18, and she ATE 💅✨ go parse some headers, you're doing amazing sweetie 🎀💖🌈