Re: [libmicrohttpd] libmicrohttpd and date

[Christian Grothoff]

Dear Kendrick,

I see your point, and after re-reading the respective standard it is 
clear that for systems without a clock it is actually permitted to 
exclude the DATE header.  Now, I don't think this should be done via 
configure -- wouldn't a flag given to MHD_start_daemon do just as well? 
(addition of 'MHD_SUPPRESS_DATE_NO_CLOCK' to 'enum MHD_FLAG')?

Please let me know, this should be a tiny patch...

Happy hacking,

-Christian

On 11/21/2011 03:38 PM, Kendrick Hamilton wrote:
> Christian,
>    Thank you for making libmicrohttpd. It has proven to be very useful 
> to us.
>
>     We do have one issue (that I have worked around). Our embedded 
> system runs Linux based on uClibc. When I run configure on the 
> library, it detects correctly the time and date functions from uClibc. 
> The catch is our processor does not have a battery backed up real time 
> clock. When the unit powers up, it thinks the date is January 1st, 
> 1970. libmicrohttpd very helpfully adds the MHD_HTTP_HEADER_DATE to 
> responses. Since the system time is wrong, this value is wrong and it 
> mucks up caching.
>
>     It would be nice if you had an option for the ./configure to tell 
> the library to build for systems that don't know the time and date. 
> This may be useful for other embedded systems people.
>
>
> Thank You
> Kendrick Hamilton