Quick hack to work around JuliaLang/julia#25472

src/Pairs.jl

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ module Pairs
 
 export defaultbyfirst, setbyfirst, getbyfirst, setkv, getkv, rmkv
 
+import ..compat_findfirst
 
 """
     setbyfirst(collection, item) -> item
@@ -13,7 +14,7 @@ Otherwise the new `item` is inserted at the end of the `collection`.
 
 function setbyfirst(c, item, eq = ==)
     k = first(item)
-    if (i = findfirst(x->eq(first(x), k), c)) > 0
+    if (i = compat_findfirst(x->eq(first(x), k), c)) > 0
         c[i] = item
     else
         push!(c, item)
@@ -29,7 +30,7 @@ Get `item` from collection where `first(item)` matches `key`.
 """
 
 function getbyfirst(c, k, default=nothing, eq = ==)
-    i = findfirst(x->eq(first(x), k), c)
+    i = compat_findfirst(x->eq(first(x), k), c)
     return i > 0 ? c[i] : default
 end
 
@@ -43,7 +44,7 @@ insert the new `item` at the end of the `collection`.
 
 function defaultbyfirst(c, item, eq = ==)
     k = first(item)
-    if (i = findfirst(x->eq(first(x), k), c)) == 0
+    if (i = compat_findfirst(x->eq(first(x), k), c)) == 0
         push!(c, item)
     end
     return
@@ -67,7 +68,7 @@ where `first(item) == key` and `value = item[2]`
 """
 
 function getkv(c, k, default=nothing)
-    i = findfirst(x->first(x) == k, c)
+    i = compat_findfirst(x->first(x) == k, c)
     return i > 0 ? c[i][2] : default
 end
 
@@ -79,7 +80,7 @@ Remove `key` from `collection` of key/value `Pairs`.
 """
 
 function rmkv(c, k, default=nothing)
-    i = findfirst(x->first(x) == k, c)
+    i = compat_findfirst(x->first(x) == k, c)
     if i > 0
         deleteat!(c, i)
     end

src/Parsers.jl

@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ import MbedTLS.SSLContext
 
 import ..@debug, ..@debugshow, ..DEBUG_LEVEL
 import ..@require, ..precondition_error
+import ..compat_findfirst
 
 include("consts.jl")
 include("parseutils.jl")
@@ -465,7 +466,7 @@ function parseheaders(onheader::Function #=f(::Pair{String,String}) =#,
             end
             @passert p <= len + 1
 
-            write(parser.valuebuffer, view(bytes, start:p-1))
+            write(parser.valuebuffer, collect(view(bytes, start:p-1)))
 
             if p_state >= s_req_http_start
                 parser.message.target = take!(parser.valuebuffer)
@@ -603,7 +604,7 @@ function parseheaders(onheader::Function #=f(::Pair{String,String}) =#,
                 c = lower(ch)
 
                 @debugshow 4 h
-                crlf = findfirst(x->(x == bCR || x == bLF), view(bytes, p:len))
+                crlf = compat_findfirst(x->(x == bCR || x == bLF), view(bytes, p:len))
                 p = crlf == 0 ? len : p + crlf - 2
 
                 p += 1

src/URIs.jl

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import Base.==
 
 import ..@require, ..precondition_error
 import ..@ensure, ..postcondition_error
+import ..compat_search
 
 
 include("urlparser.jl")
@@ -175,10 +176,11 @@ const uses_query = ["http", "wais", "imap", "https", "shttp", "mms", "gopher", "
 const uses_fragment = ["hdfs", "ftp", "hdl", "http", "gopher", "news", "nntp", "wais", "https", "shttp", "snews", "file", "prospero"]
 
 "checks if a `HTTP.URI` is valid"
+
 function Base.isvalid(uri::URI)
     sch = uri.scheme
     isempty(sch) && throw(ArgumentError("can not validate relative URI"))
-    if ((sch in non_hierarchical) && (search(uri.path, '/') > 1)) ||       # path hierarchy not allowed
+    if ((sch in non_hierarchical) && (compat_search(uri.path, '/') > 1)) ||       # path hierarchy not allowed
        (!(sch in uses_query) && !isempty(uri.query)) ||                    # query component not allowed
        (!(sch in uses_fragment) && !isempty(uri.fragment)) ||              # fragment identifier component not allowed
        (!(sch in uses_authority) && (!isempty(uri.host) || ("" != uri.port) || !isempty(uri.userinfo))) # authority component not allowed

src/compat.jl

@@ -4,12 +4,18 @@
     using Distributed
     import Dates
 
+    compat_search(a...) = (r = search(a...); r === nothing ? 0 : r)
+    compat_findfirst(a...) = (r = findfirst(a...); r === nothing ? 0 : r)
+
 else # Julia v0.6
 
     eval(:(module Base64 end))
     const Dates = Base.Dates
     const Distributed = Base.Distributed
 
+    const compat_search = search
+    const compat_findfirst = findfirst
+
     pairs(x) = [k => v for (k,v) in x]
 
     Base.SubString(s) = SubString(s, 1)

src/cookies.jl

@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ import ..Dates
 import Base.==
 import ..URIs.isurlchar
 using ..pairs
+import ..compat_search
+
 
 """
     Cookie()
@@ -163,7 +165,7 @@ function readsetcookie(host, cookie)
         parts[x] = strip(parts[x])
         length(parts[x]) == 0 && continue
         attr, val = parts[x], ""
-        j = search(parts[x], '=')
+        j = compat_search(parts[x], '=')
         if j > 0
             attr, val = attr[1:j-1], attr[j+1:end]
         end