RE: [lwip-users] Improved HTTP webserver (was: http_sent cb shows 1 byte trailer [RAW])

[Bill Auerbach]

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>Subject: RE: [lwip-users] http_sent cb shows 1 byte trailer [RAW]
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>I thought of something like that, also. The problem is memory usage (or
>tcp raw API limitations?): currently, the httpd returns static memory
>(i.e. tcp doesn't need to copy). With variables in it, tcp would have to
>copy, but we'd need to create the page before that. This would mean we
>need the memory twice (1. create the char[] containing the file and 2.
>tcp copies it into pbufs).
>
>To prevent that, we'd have to move from such a char[] to a callback that
>generates the bytes we need before passing them to tcp_write (is that
>what Luminary did?), but that's quite hard.

Yes, they parse and feed data on the fly.  Memory usage is low - it has to
be because many of their processors have 64k onboard RAM only.

>I like the idea. I'm currently in the process of restructuring the code
>of httpd.c in contrib, but I want to wait until after the release before
>committing it.

Sounds like a good idea with all the recent posts about the current contrib
version.

Bill