Re: [libmicrohttpd] MHD_create_response_from_fd using a pipe

[Christian Grothoff]

Hi!

Why don't you just use 'MHD_create_response_from_fd'?  I'm not sure how
well pipes (or socketpairs) work with 'sendfile', but short of that,
this should work at least to set the FD.

You wouldn't be able to do chunked encoding on systems where 'size_t !=
uint64_t' (because we have 'size_t' for the size argument, which is
admittedly not nice). Other than those limitations, this should give you
the desired result.

-Christian

On 06/02/2015 08:07 AM, Denis Dowling wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> I am looking at generating some content from the result of a zip process
> and it would be neat if I could get the popen() pipe to push data
> directly into MHD_create_response. It looks like this would almost work
> by using MHD_create_response_from_callback but also setting the
> response->fd to be the fd of the pipe returned by popen(). Read callback
> would be mostly the same as happens for a file. The size would be set to
> -1 for chunked output. pclose() call could be run from the free callback.
> 
>  
> 
> Has anyone done something like this before? There is an issue that the
> response->fd is opaque from user code and would need some function to
> expose.
> 
>  
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Denis
> 
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