MHD_create_response_from_callback() is the API you are looking for. src/examples/chunked_example.c (and various others) is one example for how this API is used. Admittedly, it's not in the tutorial (yet), and I agree it would be good to add it.
On 06/18/2017 10:38 AM, Alex Reynolds wrote: > I have some request handler code that sends the contents of a regular > file to the client. However, the issue is that my program must first > write a regular file to the file system, and this is time consuming for > very large files. My program (and the client) must wait for the entire > file to be generated, before my program can go back and read the file to > send any data to the client. > > As an addition to the excellent tutorials already available, I'd like to > ask if there could be a tutorial written that demonstrates how to > process a single request for data in chunks, where the source of the > data is not a regular file, but a heap-allocated buffer of some size, > which is repeatedly filled to some content length (up to or smaller than > its size) and sent to the client in asynchronous fashion, until all data > are processed. > > Regards, > Alex
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