Is there a lightweight multipart/form-data parser in C or C++?

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Hongli picture Hongli · Feb 15, 2010 · Viewed 13.1k times · Source

I'm looking at integrating multipart form-data parsing in a web server module so that I can relieve backend web applications (often written in dynamic languages) from parsing the multipart data themselves. The multipart grammar (RFC 2046) looks non-trivial and if I implement it by hand a lot of things can go wrong. Is there already a good, lightweight multipart/form-data parser written in C or C++? I'm looking for one with no external dependencies other than the C or C++ standard library. I don't need email attachment handling or buffered I/O classes or a portability runtime or whatever, just multipart/form-data parsing.

Things that I've considered:

  • GMime - depends on glib, so no go.
  • libapreq - too large, depends on APR, badly documented, no unit tests.

I've also looked at writing a parser with Ragel, but I can't figure out how to do it because the grammar is not static: the boundary can change arbitrarily.

Answer

James McLaughlin picture James McLaughlin · Aug 12, 2012

I know this question is a couple of years old now, but I needed the same and ended up using this:

https://github.com/iafonov/multipart-parser-c

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