Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] Having some questions on cpp-netlib

[Александр М. <am...@ma...>]

 Thanks Michael, I hope that async client will be coming soon.

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:16:53 +0800 письмо от Dean Michael Berris <mik...@gm...>:

> 
> Hi Alex, I'm currently in the middle of a project that is requiring my 100% attention, so I may not be able to respond right away. I'll let the others on the list respond but I am working on an asynchronous client implementation. I'll say more when I'm at a full computer. Hope this helps.
> 
> Sent from my Motorola Milestone
> 
> On 21 Jul 2010 17:53, "Александр Мартынов" <am...@ma...> wrote:
> 
>  Hello!
> 
>  Sorry, I am not a developer, I am simply interesting on cpp-netlib library, but I was not found any support mailing list.
> 
>  My questions are:
> 1) HTTP client and SSL. How I can compile client without HTTPS support (which adds dependency on openssl library). I try to define BOOST_NETWORK_NO_HTTPS, but it not work. I try to lookup in code for BOOST_NETWORK_NO_HTTPS or BOOST_NETWORK_HTTPS, but there is no occurences found.
> Some https features found in boost\network\protocol\http\impl\sync_connection_base.hpp, but they are unconditional and can't be stripped.
> 
> 2) cpp-netlib is hard C++ library, and I can't understand it.
> I think that HTTP server (in sample) is serial (not a parallel) and handles requests consistently. Hard worker requests can easy get denial of service when incoming connection overfull connection accept queue. I am right? Is the way to make parallel server, which handles requess in different threads?
> 
> 3) Is there way to stop client from other thread?
> Such illustrated above:
> -- worker thread --
> client.get(); // client.post() etc
> -------------------
> 
> -- GUI thread --
> if (canceled && client.in_progress()) client.abort();
> ----------------
> 
> Or, may be there is the way to install callback which periodicaly receives client status events (such as "resolving", "connecting", "awaiting_reply") and can return value to signal that abort needed (true for continue, false to abort, as sample)
> 
> Or, may be client can be used in async mode such here:
> client.get();
> while( not canceled and client.in_progress() and not client.done()) {}
> 
> 4) Is there the way to make secure (https) server?
> 
> 
> Thank you for your attention,
>  Alex Martynov.
> 
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