Re: [libmicrohttpd] Update for websocket library

[silvioprog]

This is awesome news! Congratulations David, I'll test this new feature
ASAP. 🎉

On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 4:42 PM Gausmann, David <david.gausm...@measx.com>
wrote:

> Hi @all,
>
> some months ago I wrote an additional library for libmicrohttpd to add
> support for the websocket protocol.
> Christian and Evgeny added that library with the configure flag
> “--with-experimental”.
> There were still some tasks to do, but now I am finally done with them.
>
> In the attachment you find the patch file, which must be applied to get
> the final version of the API.
>
> For short it contains the following changes:
> - added API documentation to libmicrohttpd.texi
> - added websocket tutorial chapter to libmicrohttpd-tutorial and an much
> easier example for the tutorial
> - added additional helper functions to ease the HTTP websocket handshake
> - the code can now be compiled on Linux without errors :-)
> - changed sha1.c and sha1.h to the files provided by Evgeny (I replaced
> those files in src/microhttpd_ws/ with the files from src/microhttpd/ -
> maybe there is a smarter way...?)
> - removed dependency for "htons" and "htonl" (these functions are now
> implemented in MHD_websocket.c; no need for OS-dependent files anymore)
> - added an additional test script for testing of the library with any
> webbrowser (for manual practice test)
> - several bugfixes
> - parameters renamed
> - special things clarified (fragmentation, RNG for client mode)
>
> The new version of the API is at some points incompatible with the old
> version, but since it was in an experimental phase and it didn't compile on
> Linux, I guess this shouldn't bother anyone.
> From my point of view, I am now finished with the library and it could go
> out of experimental.
> Maybe it would be good if anyone could give it a review.
>
>
> Kind Regards
> David Gausmann
>
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