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 * Copyright 2012 The Netty Project
 *
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 * version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
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package io.netty.handler.codec.http;

import io.netty.buffer.ByteBuf;
import io.netty.util.CharsetUtil;

import static io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpConstants.*;

/**
 * Encodes an {@link HttpRequest} or an {@link HttpContent} into
 * a {@link ByteBuf}.
 */
public class HttpRequestEncoder extends HttpObjectEncoder<HttpRequest> {
    private static final char SLASH = '/';
    private static final byte[] CRLF = { CR, LF };

    @Override
    public boolean acceptOutboundMessage(Object msg) throws Exception {
        return super.acceptOutboundMessage(msg) && !(msg instanceof HttpResponse);
    }

    @Override
    protected void encodeInitialLine(ByteBuf buf, HttpRequest request) throws Exception {
        buf.writeBytes(request.getMethod().toString().getBytes(CharsetUtil.US_ASCII));
        buf.writeByte(SP);

        // Add / as absolute path if no is present.
        // See http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-5.1.2
        String uri = request.getUri();
        int start = uri.indexOf("://");
        if (start != -1) {
            int startIndex = start + 3;
            if (uri.lastIndexOf(SLASH) <= startIndex) {
                uri += SLASH;
            }
        }
        buf.writeBytes(uri.getBytes(CharsetUtil.UTF_8));

        buf.writeByte(SP);
        buf.writeBytes(request.getProtocolVersion().toString().getBytes(CharsetUtil.US_ASCII));
        buf.writeBytes(CRLF);
    }
}

@@ -1340,38 +1340,35 @@
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+encodeAscii
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@@ -1390,39 +1390,13 @@
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-.getBytes(CharsetUtil.US_ASCII)
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@@ -1887,30 +1887,27 @@
         
-buf.writeBytes
+encodeAscii
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@@ -1942,39 +1942,13 @@
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-.getBytes(CharsetUtil.US_ASCII)
+, buf
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Improve performance of HttpRequestEncoder.encodeInitialLine(...)