Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] HTTP Server - Set response Content-Type

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

Hi David,

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 5:32 AM, David Hite <dav...@gm...> wrote:
> Howdy all,
> I've just started working with cpp-netlib and I am trying to get an HTTP
> server (not asynchronous) working with different mime Content-Types.
> I see that the FileServer example sets the mime-type for different responses
> in the asynchronous server connection_ptr but I can't get anything like it
> to work for a simple synchronous server response.
> Can anyone give an example of how to set the Content-Type header for a
> simple synchronous server response?

Certainly. If you look in
libs/network/test/http/server_hello_world.cpp there is an example of
setting the headers for the response of a synchronous HTTP server.
What you'll need to remember is that the response object passed by
lvalue reference to the handler has a member named `headers` where you
would put all the headers you want.

In your handler's operator() overload, you would have something like this:

  server::response::header_type content_type = {"Content-Type",
"application/octet-stream"};
  response.headers.push_back(content_type);

This is at least true for the version in the 0.9-devel branch. If
you're on 0.8, you would need code that looks like this:

  server::response_header content_type = {"Content-Type",
"application/octet-stream"};
  response.headers.push_back(content_type);


> Thanks,
> -Dave-

I hope this helps!

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Dean Michael Berris
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