http-request-target

HTTP/1.1 request-target parser with a zero-copy bias.

Absolute-Form Policy

RFC 9112 defines:

absolute-form = absolute-URI

This crate intentionally narrows that production for implementation purposes to the authority-based URI shape commonly used by HTTP-family request targets:

scheme "://" authority path-abempty [ "?" query ]

This means:

• http://example.com/path is accepted
• https://example.com is accepted
• git+http://example.com/repo is accepted
• htt:p//host is rejected

The intent is to parse the request-target portion of an HTTP request line, not to act as a generic RFC 3986 absolute-URI parser. In practice that means this crate accepts absolute-form targets that carry an authority and rejects other generic absolute-URI shapes even if they are permitted by the broader URI grammar.