Re: [libmicrohttpd] libmicrohttpd 0.4.0pre0 released

[Christian Grothoff]

Sounds convincing to me, and I think I convinced Amir as well ;-).

Christian

On Thursday 11 September 2008 08:56:27 am Sebastian Gerhardt wrote:
> Thanks for the new release, Christian and Amir.
>
> With HTTPS, it contains everything one could expect from such a library.
> Maybe even a bit more, and this brings me to my suggestion/question:
> Before you release the official documentation of the API, maybe remove
> the parts of the daemon that load the certs/keys from a file.
> (MHD_OPTION_HTTPS_CERT_PATH and MHD_OPTION_HTTPS_KEY_PATH)
>
> I think these are merely convenience functions and they account for
> quite a share of the code's size with all their additional code paths
> and error handlings. File loading seems a bit out of scope for such an
> library, especially when it has a priority on size. Not to mention the
> fact that embedded developers might have to use trimmed down C libraries
> without file I/O and just want to store the certs in some special ROM.
>
> In my opinion, the option to pass the certs to the daemon via a memory
> pointer will suffice, given that a file loader is written very quickly.
>
>
> Sebastian
>
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