Re: [libmicrohttpd] Connection: Upgrade / WebSockets

[Christian Grothoff]

I'd just stick to the respective section of RFC 2616:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-14.42

On 09/07/2016 01:02 AM, silvioprog wrote:
> Good news! \o/
> 
> Hello Christian, do you recommend some article/video about HTTP upgrade? I
> want to understand how it works too.
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 1:14 PM, Christian Grothoff <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> 
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I've just completed adding support for "Connection: Upgrade" to
>> libmicrohttpd.  With this addition, it should be possible to support
>> WebSockets, upgrade to TLS and all kinds of other protocol switches (via
>> HTTP response code 101).
>>
>> To use the new functionality, the application basically queues a special
>> response (MHD_create_response_for_upgrade) and is in return given a
>> socket that it can use for bidirectional communication with the client.
>> There are testcases in src/daemon/test_upgrade(_ssl).c that show how to
>> use the new API; the texinfo manual has also been updated.
>>
>> The new API should work the same way *also* for TLS connections, thanks
>> to some socketpair-magic hiding the change from the application.
>>
>>
>> While I've tested the code, I don't _actually_ have a need for it
>> myself: various people on the list simply had requested support for
>> "Connection: Upgrade" or WebSockets. As a result, I'm obviously not 100%
>> sure if this does everything we need.
>>
>>
>> Thus, if you are interested in this functionality, please:
>>
>> * try it now, check if the API does what you need and if not,
>>   let me know!
>> * test it now, that way once we put it into a release we will
>>   likely have a more stable API and implementation!
>>
>>
>> I should note that I've not done any tests on W32, I hope Evgeny will
>> get to this soon.
>>
>>
>> Happy hacking!
>>
>> Christian
> 
>

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