Returns the default status message of the given HTTP status code.

Based on Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Status Code Registry

Last Updated 2017-04-14

HTTP Status Codes (source: http-status-codes-1.csv)

• 1xx: Informational - Request received, continuing process
• 2xx: Success - The action was successfully received, understood, and accepted
• 3xx: Redirection - Further action must be taken in order to complete the request
• 4xx: Client Error - The request contains bad syntax or cannot be fulfilled
• 5xx: Server Error - The server failed to fulfill an apparently valid request

Dequotes an RFC 2616 quoted-string.

quoted = %q(\"foo\\bar\")
HTTP.dequote_string(quoted) # => %q("foo\bar")

Encodes a string to an RFC 2616 quoted-string. Encoded string is written to io. May raise when string contains an invalid character.

string = %q("foo\ bar")
io = IO::Memory.new
HTTP.quote_string(string, io)
io.gets_to_end # => %q(\"foo\\\ bar\")

Encodes a string to an RFC 2616 quoted-string. May raise when string contains an invalid character.

string = %q("foo\ bar")
HTTP.quote_string(string) # => %q(\"foo\\\ bar\")

Format a Time object as a String using the format specified by RFC 1123.

HTTP.rfc1123_date(Time.new(2016, 2, 15)) # => "Sun, 14 Feb 2016 21:00:00 GMT"