Re: [libmicrohttpd] Queuing responses?

[Christian Grothoff]

On 09/20/2012 07:03 PM, Glenn wrote:
> 
> Following up on today's digest ---
> 
> I'm going through the libmicrohttpd tutorial and working through the 
> examples. One question that comes to my mind is why the second invocation of 
> the connection handler is necessary/desirable. In the tutorial it is stated: 
> "This is because the content of the message body will not be received if a 
> response is queued in the first iteration. Furthermore, the connection will 
> be closed right after the response has be transferred then." Apparently I'm 
> missing something. Can someone supply details (or a pointer to where this has 
> already been discussed) as to the requests and responses that MHD is going 
> through?
> 
> Glenn

Yeah, this is turning into a bit of a FAQ...

Some pointers, in no particular order:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libmicrohttpd/2011-09/msg00027.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libmicrohttpd/2009-02/msg00000.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libmicrohttpd/2008-08/msg00009.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libmicrohttpd/2012-04/msg00001.html

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec8.html
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html

http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2004-08/0002.html
http://www.iandennismiller.com/blog/2009/09/curl-http1-1-100-continue-and-multipartform-data-post/

Happy hacking!

Christian