Re: [libmicrohttpd] tiny websocket above LMHD

[José Bollo]

On Sun, 3 Feb 2019 22:35:13 -0300
silvioprog <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello again José,

Hi Silvio,
 
> I tried the library on Linux and Windows. On Linux, it works, i.e.,
> the client sends text to the server, the only problem I've found was
> that Ctrl+C in the client closes the server too, but a server
> shouldn't be closed by a client.

Perhaps some "signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN);" is missing

> On Windows (latest mingw-w64
> <http://www.msys2.org>), I couldn't compile it. I've got some errors
> like "array type has incomplete element type 'struct iovec'",
> "'F_SETFL' undeclared", "'O_NONBLOCK' undeclared", maybe by missing
> symbols specific from Linux that aren't present on Windows. I've
> tried to solve it, but it is a little bit hard to be solved, and
> IIUC, the library would use IOCP on Windows, but I'm not familiar
> with that. :-/

Yep, iov feature could be removed probably. It doesn't brings much at
the end.

> Anyway, it can be used as base to develop a cross-platform WS
> solution to be used with MHD.

I would be happy if it could be done in the context of
https://gitlab.com/jobol/lmhd-ws

But it is a matter of choice I know. If you want please open issues to
track your features: https://gitlab.com/jobol/lmhd-ws/issues

Best regards
José
 
> Thank you!
> 
> On Sun, Feb 3, 2019 at 12:56 AM silvioprog <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hello José,
> >
> > first, thanks for this awesome work! I took a look at the sources
> > and it seems very clean. I'll test it on Windows. I saw you did the
> > client too, so it will be very helpful for who those want to study
> > WS.
> >
> > But, I have two questions: is it very difficult to do a minimal WS
> > example to distribute in the MHD examples? If so, will mark the
> > #5501 <https://gnunet.org/bugs/view.php?id=5501> as 'won't fix' and
> > close the issue. The other question is if it could be used as
> > dependency in a library under LGPL license.
> >
> > Once more, thank you very much for sharing it! ☺
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 3:57 PM José Bollo <address@hidden> wrote:
> >  
> >> I am proud to share with you a tiny implementation of websocket
> >> with libmicrohttpd.
> >>
> >> You can find it there:
> >>
> >>    https://gitlab.com/jobol/lmhd-ws
> >>
> >> I tried to give something small and useful (based on some previous
> >> work I made).
> >>
> >> It is not perfect so feedback are welcome. Especially I only work
> >> on linux. People on Mac or BSD are welcome to submit issues or pull
> >> requests. People of windows also of course.
> >>
> >> Best regards
> >> José Bollo  
> >
> >
> > --
> > Silvio Clécio
> >  
> 
>