There's no documentation for this item.

Source Code

# File webrick/httprequest.rb, line 224
def read_request_line(socket)
  @request_line = read_line(socket) if socket
  @request_time = Time.now
  raise HTTPStatus::EOFError unless @request_line
  if /^(\S+)\s+(\S+)(?:\s+HTTP\/(\d+\.\d+))?\r?\n/mo =~ @request_line
    @request_method = $1
    @unparsed_uri   = $2
    @http_version   = HTTPVersion.new($3 ? $3 : "0.9")
  else
    rl = @request_line.sub(/\x0d?\x0a\z/o, '')
    raise HTTPStatus::BadRequest, "bad Request-Line `#{rl}'."
  end
end