On 10/6/26 8:31 AM, Gianluca Cannata wrote:
Il giorno ven 2 ott 2026 alle ore 22:28 Christian Grothoff via
libmicrohttpd <[email protected]> ha scritto:
That said, MHD2 is under heavy development
(git://git.taler.net/libmicrohttpd2) and _MAY_ already be useful for new
developments as the subset of features supported by MHD1 is already
quite stable -- and the most useful contributions one could make right
now would probably to tell us where MHD2 breaks (for features that are
actually implemented).
Hello Christian,
Thank you for the response.
When you say MHD1 is quite stable and MHD2 is under heavy development,
do you mean I can use MHD2 as a library in my httpfs translator test suite?
Well, you certainly can use it, but especially if you use new features
like HTTP/2 support, you should expect to still possibly encounter bugs.
We'd be happy to receive reports if you run into issues and will be
eager to fix them. For HTTP/1.1, I think it should be fine, we've done
some first use-cases with MHD2 and encountered no issues.
Currently, the httpfs shall support only HTTP/1.1 as far as I would
like to but HTTP/2 and even HTTP/3 are planned (when I don't know).
What's the difference between MHD1 and MHD2 may I ask?
Oh, many things, let me give you the short version:
- modern API, harder to use wrong / unsafely: more type-safety and
memory-safety baked into the API
- improved performance (CPU, latency, code size)
- new features (HTTP/2, ACME, ...), more coming
- same license, same developers ;-)
Happy hacking!
Christian
