Re: [lwip-users] basic question on httpserver-netconn application.

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Francois Bouchard wrote:
> Ok yes, I should have looked before posting, but thanks.  Anyway I got the
> webserver working now, and this is my starting point to make a basic echo
> web server.  From what I see the server netconn closes between requests in
> order to accept new ones.  But what if my client needs to stay connected?  I
> beleive the server should'nt closes nor deletes the netconn.  I try to
> program this but without success, any hints would be welcome
>   

I guess what you want is to use one TCP connection for multiple HTTP 
requests? I can't remember exactly, but I think that wasn't introduced 
before HTTP 1.1...

Anyway, the httpserver-netconn is only an example, not meant to be used 
in productive environment like it is!

The downside is you would either need something like select or you would 
block one thread for one connection, even if the client doesn't reuse 
the connection immediately. To implement this, the basline is: don't 
close established connections unless receiving 0-length for the first 
time (which means the other side has closed the connection). That should 
do the trick.

Simon