Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] HTTP Synchronous server reply methods?

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

On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 7:08 AM, David Hite <dav...@gm...> wrote:
>
>>
>> response << Server::response::body(buffer);
>>

This should just be:

    namespace http = boost::network::http;
    response << http::body(buffer);

>
> However, now I have the problem that response.content is a string. How do I
> send binary data, such as an image file?
>

The way I would do it is to somehow mmap the file, get the mmap'ed
pointer, and copy the data into response.content directly. Binary data
is held fine by std::string instances, you just have to reserve the
appropriate amount of memory when you're doing that.

HTH

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Dean Michael Berris
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