Re: [libmicrohttpd] Permission Denied Error

[Evgeny Grin]

It could relate to Windows Firewall or some other system protection.
You can create socket by yourself, bind it, start listening and provide
it as parameter with MHD_OPTION_LISTEN_SOCKET for MHD_start_daemon(). In
that case you can get more intermediate error states.

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Best Wishes,
Evgeny Grin

On 04.08.2016 1:14, Phil Rosenberg wrote:
> vHi
> I have a problem with some code I have written using libmicrohttpd.
> The software is run on windows and compiled with visual studio 2015,
> as is my copy of libmicrohttpd.
> 
> The issue only occurs for some of my users, however, if I step through
> the code it seems that the bind call is failing. Stepping through the
> error reporting code the error reported by Windows is WSAEACCES, which
> causes a "Permission denied" error to be reported by MHD.
> I don't really understand the information at
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms737550(v=vs.85).aspx.
> Is it possible anyone here could shed some light on the issue. It
> seems that when someone comes across this issue the windows firewall
> never asks the user if they want to allow the application to be
> unblocked - I don't know if that helps. My MHD_start_daemon call looks
> like
> 
> m_daemon = MHD_start_daemon(
>   MHD_USE_SELECT_INTERNALLY| MHD_USE_DEBUG,
>   port,
>   NULL,
>   NULL,
>   &HttpDaemon::connectionCallback,
>   this,
>   MHD_OPTION_NOTIFY_COMPLETED, &HttpDaemon::completeCallback, NULL,
> //variables which allow post to be processed
>   MHD_OPTION_EXTERNAL_LOGGER, &HttpDaemon::parseMessageVa, this,
>   MHD_OPTION_END);
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Phil
>

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