Re: [Cppcms-users] Anybody uses cppcms::http::http_response io_mode raw or asynchronous_raw?

[Artyom B. <art...@gm...>]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 1:17 AM Fernando Fuentes <die...@gm...> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I use "raw_post_data" to parse json, and use it for REST.
>
>

*This is something else and this is of course it remains :-)*

raw response mode means something else:
response().io_mode(raw) - means you write to out() your CGI headers: i.e.:

out() << "Content-Type:text/html\r\nCookie: foo-bbar\r\n\r\n"
out() << "Hello"

This isn't very low level interface for something very custom.

Artyom



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> El mar., 1 sept. 2020 a las 15:17, Artyom Beilis (<art...@gm...>)
> escribió:
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>> Hello Dear CppCMS users
>>
>> Have anybody used raw or asynchronous_raw with http_response?
>>
>> I'm doing some changes for HTTP/1.1+websockets+performance improvement
>> support.
>> The original CppCMS design had an underlying assumption that the basic
>> communication protocol is derivative of CGI protocols - FastCGI, SCGI.
>>
>> So when http web server was added it actually parsed CGI output headers
>> and converted them to HTTP ones. Thus use of raw/asynchronos_raw mode when
>> the user writes his own CGI headers instead of generating them via
>> http_response API was reasonable.
>>
>> Today I want to make an HTTP protocol 1st class citizen in CppCMS - which
>> means that I don't silently assume that all IO is CGI based. It is actually
>> a requirement for extensions like WebSockets and other things that can't be
>> passed via *CGI like protocols.
>>
>> Removing "raw" *CGI I/O would simplify the task. I can implement it via
>> an intermediate CGI parser but it isn't the most trivial task.
>>
>> So I need to understand if anybody actually uses this feature or I can
>> remove it in CppCMS 2.0.0?
>>
>> Artyom Beilis
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