Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] New Asynchronous Server Example Up: Static FileServer

[Dean M. B. <mik...@gm...>]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Nelson, Erik - 2
<eri...@ba...> wrote:
> Dean Michael wrote:
>> I've just pushed to master a new example that highlights the
>> asynchronous server template in 0.8. The example can be found here:
>
> Great news!
>

:-)

>>
>> The example only works on Linux/UNIX where mmap is available, maybe
>> someone can help make this work on Windows too? :)
>>
> Boost iostreams offers platform-independent memory mapping... I've used
> it for an http client sending large files without reading the whole file
> into memory.
>

Interesting. Thanks for the pointer on Boost.Iostreams.

Let me see if I can use Boost.Iostreams for that purpose on this
example, and maybe as the body of request/response objects. Will try
to play around with Boost.Iostreams but it would most probably be
slated for 0.9 if ever I get to supporting it.

-- 
Dean Michael Berris
deanberris.com