❔ how to tell if a TCP request is a HTTP request
I am making a little proof of concept for a service that listens to TCP port
when it receives a request it returns the same text as an answer for now
I can also send request via a browser and I receive it but i need to apply special header and stuff to reply to HTTP request
When a request is sent from browser it looks like this:
GET /OMEGALUL HTTP/1.1
HOST: LOCALHOST:13000
CONNECTION: KEEP-ALIVE
CACHE-CONTROL: MAX-AGE=0
SEC-CH-UA: "GOOGLE CHROME";V="111", "NOT(A:BRAND";V="8", "CHROMIUM";V="111"
SEC-CH-UA-MOBILE: ?0
SEC-CH-UA-PLATFORM: "WINDOWS"
UPGRADE-INSECURE-REQUESTS: 1
2023-03-24 09:06:03.570 -04:00 [INF]
USER-AGENT: MOZILLA/5.0 (WINDOWS NT 10.0; WIN64; X64) APPLEWEBKIT/537.36 (KHTML, LIKE GECKO) CHROME/111.0.0.0 SAFARI/537.36
ACCEPT: TEXT/HTML,APPLICATION/XHTML+XML,APPLICATION/XML;Q=0.9,IMAGE/AVIF,IMAGE/WEBP,IMAGE/APNG,/;Q=0.8,APPLICATION/SIGNED-EXCHAN
2023-03-24 09:06:03.570 -04:00 [INF] GE;V=B3;Q=0.7
SEC-FETCH-SITE: NONE
SEC-FETCH-MODE: NAVIGATE
SEC-FETCH-USER: ?1
SEC-FETCH-DEST: DOCUMENT
ACCEPT-ENCODING: GZIP, DEFLATE, BR
ACCEPT-LANGUAGE: EN-US,EN;Q=0.9,FR;Q=0.8
is it safe to say that if request contains "HTTP/1.1" it is a http request and should be answered differently?
8 Replies
is there a reason you're trying to do this from scratch instead of using ASP.NET Core?
because i want to respond to plain TCP calls as well as http
i'd just run 2 different listeners tbh
one port for http, one for whatever protocol you're implementing
hmm yea that could work
it will be a lot less trouble than implementing a HTTP server yourself
Also, the normal way to tell what sort of TCP traffic you're receiving is.... to see what port it's on. That's the convention: if it's on port 80 it's HTTP, 443 is HTTPS, etc
oh right, thanks
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