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Informational 12 Bitcoin

http: Implement HTTPHeaders class

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Matthew Zipkin

66/100 · Adequate
http: Implement HTTPHeaders class

see:
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2616#section-4.2
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7231#section-5
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7231#section-7
https://httpwg.org/specs/rfc9111.html#header.field.definitions
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit introduces a new internal helper class for parsing and building HTTP headers in Bitcoin Core. It does not change any existing behavior or fix a known bug; it is purely new infrastructure code with tests. There is no indication this commit itself creates or fixes a security issue.

Recommended action

No immediate action required. Treat as routine refactoring/infrastructure. Review how this class is integrated into live HTTP request handling in subsequent commits, since any new parser can introduce subtle behavioral differences.

Security signals we found

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New HTTP header parsing class with input validation

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Rejects CR, LF, NUL characters in header lines

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Rejects whitespace in header field names

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Enforces 8192-byte total header size limit

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No existing parser behavior is replaced or removed in this commit

Risk score

Why this scored 12/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 0/30
Exploitability 0/25
Stealth signal 0/15
Affected reach 0/15
Confidence 8/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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