Hi Alex,
The whole WebSockets implementation was contributed by an MHD user. It
was merged mostly “as is”, in the hope that the code would eventually be
improved when someone found it useful.
However, for several years no one has contributed to or improved the WS
code, and the whole WS implementation has become unmaintained.
We had to remove the unmaintained code, as it could become problematic.
If anyone wishes to address the known problems with the code, please
contact us. We can merge the WS implementation back as soon as it is fixed.
--
Best,
Evgeny
On 17/10/2025 16:17, Alexander Dahl via libmicrohttpd wrote:
Hello,
when evaluating the possibilites for implementing websockets in C/C++
I stumbled over some recent post v1.0.2 commits removing websocket
support from libmicrohttpd. The commit messages were very short and
gave no hints on reasons for the removal. I could not find any
discussion on the matter here on this list, and I also found only one
ticket for a post removal issue [1].
Could anyone please elaborate what's going on, and please recommend
alternatives or ways to move forward?
This is related to a PR for libhttpserver opened back in 2021 which
makes use of the now removed features:
https://github.com/etr/libhttpserver/pull/236
Greets
Alex
[1] https://bugs.gnunet.org/view.php?id=10483
