Re: [libmicrohttpd] A hello from a new microhttpd user with questions about http streaming, authentication and

[Jared Cantwell]

Hi Leandro,

I just started using libmicrohttpd also not too long ago.  I think if you look at the header file, https://gnunet.org/svn/libmicrohttpd/src/include/microhttpd.h, you'll find that libmicrohttpd can do both of the things you need.  

1. For streaming, take a look at the MHD_ContentReaderCallback callback, and MHD_create_response_from_callback. Using these, a client can download your file in whatever sized chunks you would like using HTTP's chunked-encoding. All you have to do is keep giving MHD the data with each callback, and the library takes care of the rest.

2. Also, libmicrohttpd does support ssl authentication. Take a look at MHD_USE_SSL, MHD_OPTION_HTTPS_MEM_KEY, and MHD_OPTION_HTTPS_MEM_CERT.

Hope that helps!

~Jared

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Leandro Santiago <address@hidden> wrote:

Hello to all.

I'm new with MHD and I have some questions about this library.

I'm writing a application in c++ which grab videos from different sources (right now from v4l and in a near future from ip camera) and, after proccess them, send them in a http streaming system, using webm codec to the most modern web browsers.

And I need to know if MHD can do it (only the part of stream :-)), because I've seen that when you do streaming via http, you cannot send the Content Length in the response header, so the connection keep open til the streaming finished. And I need to know if it's possible with MHD.

Other question  - sorry send many questions in a single e-mail - is about the http authentication. Is it possible to do with MHD?

Thx and congratulations for your great library!