Parse raw HTTP Headers

Question

I have a string of raw HTTP and I would like to represent the fields in an object. Is there any way to parse the individual headers from an HTTP string?

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Answer 1

In a pythonic way

request_text = (
    b'GET /who/ken/trust.html HTTP/1.1\r\n'
    b'Host: cm.bell-labs.com\r\n'
    b'Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3\r\n'
    b'Accept: text/html;q=0.9,text/plain\r\n'
    b'\r\n'
)

print({ k:v.strip() for k,v in [line.split(":",1) 
        for line in request_text.decode().splitlines() if ":" in line]})