Dear Christian, These are really useful info for me. Let me check more on these lines. Best Regards, Austin
On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 7:50 PM, Christian Grothoff <groth...@gnunet.org> wrote: > On 04/29/2018 03:14 PM, Austin Einter wrote: > > Dear All > > I am very new to libmicrohttpd. > > I am planning to use libmicrohttpd in one of my project. > > > > I have basic two questions > > > > 1) Can I send HTTP responses in an asynch manner. > > Example - Say I get a GET request in my libmicrohttpd server. > > Say answer_to_connection callback got called. I do not want to send > > response immediately. I will interact with my application server (which > > is in a separate machine). After my interaction with my application > > server I want to send response for GET request. Is it possible? If so > > please help how to achieve it. > > Yes, this is possible. In thread-per-connection mode, you can just block > in the callback. If you use an event loop, you must call > MHD_suspend_connection(), and then MHD_resume_connection() once you are > ready to serve the reply. > > > > > 2)I know libmicrohttpd is a server. Is it possible to use it as a > > client, like send a GET or POST request to another web server. > > Nope, but there are libraries like libwget2 and libcurl for that. > git.taler.net/twister contains an example for implementing a proxy > combining MHD and libgnurl. > > Best regards, > > Christian > >
