Fast Finite State Machine for HTTP Parsing (2014)
This is another reason these text style protocols are poorly designed. In addition to ending up ambiguous in practice, in addition to not being standard because of &quot;liberal implementations&quot;, we get this terrible performance to boot.<p>SIP has the same issue. Though most VoIP companies don&#x27;t have much bandwidth and you can just saturate them. But if they manage to filter that, overloading the actual system is not a difficult task.