Re: [libmicrohttpd] Question on Async support

[Christian Grothoff]

On 08/24/2018 04:12 PM, Santos Das wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for the prompt reply. I have few more questions., kindly see if
> you could help.
> 
> a. Does this have a transaction scoreboarding capability (e.g., to match
> up asynchronous operations)?   The use of the passed argument *cls seems
> to imply this?   That is, when you get an inbound transation you
> allocate a tracking object in application space and hand its pointer to
> libhttpd so that it can give it back to you later (i.e., you are giving
> the response and it asynchronously asks for the next chunk of bytes in
> the response).

I'm not sure I'd call this scoreboarding, but yes, the 'cls' is there so
that the application can associate state with the request for later
continuations.

> b. Does it support chunk-encoding of responses?

Yes.

> c. Does MHD has inbuilt JSON encode/decode capabilities ?

No, but easy to add by linking against libjanson.

-Christian