http: simplify checkInvalidHeaderChar

In the spirit of [17399](#17399),
we can also simplify checkInvalidHeaderChar to use regex matching
instead of a loop. This makes it faster on long matches and slower
on short matches or non-matches. This change also includes some
sample data from an AcmeAir benchmark run, as a rough proxy for
real-world data.

PR-URL: #18381
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>
Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <matteo.collina@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Joyee Cheung <joyeec9h3@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Tiancheng "Timothy" Gu <timothygu99@gmail.com>

Author: sethbrenith

benchmark/http/check_invalid_header_char.js

@@ -3,43 +3,66 @@
 const common = require('../common.js');
 const _checkInvalidHeaderChar = require('_http_common')._checkInvalidHeaderChar;
 
-// Put it here so the benchmark result lines will not be super long.
-const LONG_AND_INVALID = 'Here is a value that is really a folded header ' +
-  'value\r\n  this should be supported, but it is not currently';
+const groupedInputs = {
+  // Representative set of inputs from an AcmeAir benchmark run:
+  // all valid strings, average length 14.4, stdev 13.0
+  group_acmeair: [
+    'W/"2-d4cbb29"', 'OK', 'Express', 'X-HTTP-Method-Override', 'Express',
+    'application/json', 'application/json; charset=utf-8', '206', 'OK',
+    'sessionid=; Path=/', 'text/html; charset=utf-8',
+    'text/html; charset=utf-8', '10', 'W/"a-eda64de5"', 'OK', 'Express',
+    'application/json', 'application/json; charset=utf-8', '2', 'W/"2-d4cbb29"',
+    'OK', 'Express', 'X-HTTP-Method-Override', 'sessionid=; Path=/', 'Express',
+    'sessionid=; Path=/,sessionid=6b059402-d62f-4e6f-b3dd-ce5b9e487c39; Path=/',
+    'text/html; charset=utf-8', 'text/html; charset=utf-8', '9', 'OK',
+    'sessionid=; Path=/', 'text/html; charset=utf-8',
+    'text/html; charset=utf-8', '10', 'W/"a-eda64de5"', 'OK', 'Express',
+    'Express', 'X-HTTP-Method-Override', 'sessionid=; Path=/',
+    'application/json'
+  ],
+
+  // Put it here so the benchmark result lines will not be super long.
+  LONG_AND_INVALID: ['Here is a value that is really a folded header ' +
+    'value\r\n  this should be supported, but it is not currently']
+};
+
+const inputs = [
+  // Valid
+  '',
+  '1',
+  '\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFoo bar baz',
+  'keep-alive',
+  'close',
+  'gzip',
+  '20091',
+  'private',
+  'text/html; charset=utf-8',
+  'text/plain',
+  'Sat, 07 May 2016 16:54:48 GMT',
+  'SAMEORIGIN',
+  'en-US',
+
+  // Invalid
+  '中文呢', // unicode
+  'foo\nbar',
+  '\x7F'
+];
 
 const bench = common.createBenchmark(main, {
-  key: [
-    // Valid
-    '',
-    '1',
-    '\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFoo bar baz',
-    'keep-alive',
-    'close',
-    'gzip',
-    '20091',
-    'private',
-    'text/html; charset=utf-8',
-    'text/plain',
-    'Sat, 07 May 2016 16:54:48 GMT',
-    'SAMEORIGIN',
-    'en-US',
-
-    // Invalid
-    'LONG_AND_INVALID',
-    '中文呢', // unicode
-    'foo\nbar',
-    '\x7F'
-  ],
+  input: inputs.concat(Object.keys(groupedInputs)),
   n: [1e6],
 });
 
-function main({ n, key }) {
-  if (key === 'LONG_AND_INVALID') {
-    key = LONG_AND_INVALID;
+function main({ n, input }) {
+  let inputs = [input];
+  if (groupedInputs.hasOwnProperty(input)) {
+    inputs = groupedInputs[input];
   }
+
+  const len = inputs.length;
   bench.start();
   for (var i = 0; i < n; i++) {
-    _checkInvalidHeaderChar(key);
+    _checkInvalidHeaderChar(inputs[i % len]);
   }
   bench.end(n);
 }

lib/_http_common.js

@@ -242,57 +242,15 @@ function checkIsHttpToken(val) {
   return tokenRegExp.test(val);
 }
 
+const headerCharRegex = /[^\t\x20-\x7e\x80-\xff]/;
 /**
  * True if val contains an invalid field-vchar
  *  field-value    = *( field-content / obs-fold )
  *  field-content  = field-vchar [ 1*( SP / HTAB ) field-vchar ]
  *  field-vchar    = VCHAR / obs-text
- *
- * checkInvalidHeaderChar() is currently designed to be inlinable by v8,
- * so take care when making changes to the implementation so that the source
- * code size does not exceed v8's default max_inlined_source_size setting.
  **/
-var validHdrChars = [
-  0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, // 0 - 15
-  0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, // 16 - 31
-  1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, // 32 - 47
-  1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, // 48 - 63
-  1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, // 64 - 79
-  1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, // 80 - 95
-  1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, // 96 - 111
-  1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, // 112 - 127
-  1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, // 128 ...
-  1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,
-  1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,
-  1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,
-  1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,
-  1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,
-  1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,
-  1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1  // ... 255
-];
 function checkInvalidHeaderChar(val) {
-  val += '';
-  if (val.length < 1)
-    return false;
-  if (!validHdrChars[val.charCodeAt(0)])
-    return true;
-  if (val.length < 2)
-    return false;
-  if (!validHdrChars[val.charCodeAt(1)])
-    return true;
-  if (val.length < 3)
-    return false;
-  if (!validHdrChars[val.charCodeAt(2)])
-    return true;
-  if (val.length < 4)
-    return false;
-  if (!validHdrChars[val.charCodeAt(3)])
-    return true;
-  for (var i = 4; i < val.length; ++i) {
-    if (!validHdrChars[val.charCodeAt(i)])
-      return true;
-  }
-  return false;
+  return headerCharRegex.test(val);
 }
 
 module.exports = {