---
name: "lua-uri-http"
section: "3"
platform: "linux"
package: "lua-uri"
version: "0.1+20130926+git14fa255d-3"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/lua-uri-http"
---

# lua-uri-http(3)

HTTP URI support for Lua URI library

## Name

lua-uri-http - HTTP URI support for Lua URI library

## Description

The classes `"uri.http"` and `"uri.https"` are used for URIs with the `"http"` and `"https"` schemes respectively.  `"uri.http"` inherits from the generic uri class, and `"uri.https"` inherits from `"uri.http"`.

An HTTP or HTTPS URI containing any userinfo part is considered to be invalid.  An empty path is normalized to '/', since browsers usually do that, and an empty path cannot be used in an HTTP GET request.

The default port for the `"http"` scheme is 80, and for `"https"` is 443.

There are no extra methods defined for telnet URIs, only those described in [**lua-uri**(3)](/lua-uri/3.md).

## References

As far as I can tell there is no up to date specification of the syntax of HTTP URIs, so this class is based on "RFC 1738 section 3.3" and "RFC 2616 section 3.2.2".