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Subject: Re: [boost] [GSoC 2014] Http Server Proposal
From: isundill (isundill_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-03-07 05:30:30


I'm very interested in this project, but I'm not eligible for the Gsoc.
I would be glad to help you working on this project.

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Regards,
Thibault Barre
Le 07-Mar-14 10:25 AM, Vinícius dos Santos Oliveira a écrit :
> I'm sorry for taking so long to present my proposal, but some
> unpredictable events delayed the available time I had to work on the
> proposal and the large number of mentions you guys made turned my work
> into a task more difficult.
>
> Anyway, like some people advocating on open source projects state,
> "release early, release often". Then I'll post the link to the
> incomplete proposal through github, then I'll have a nicely formatted
> MarkDown file and you guys can easily use the diff button on the web
> interface to see the changes:
> https://github.com/vinipsmaker/gsoc2014-boost
>
> Em Qui, 2014-03-06 às 11:28 -0600, Cory Nelson escreveu:
>
>> Making a good, correct HTTP 1.1 parser is very non-trivial -- this is
>> actually a pretty ambitious project for GSOC. I'd recommend condensing
>> your idea as much as possible and working on it in cleanly separable
>> steps. Don't get distracted by Websockets and FastCGI!
>
> I haven't said anything about timelines yet. I want to have a clear core
> library and then move on to measure/guess what can be implemented during
> the GSoC and define the timeline.
>
>
>> Please make the parser I/O agnostic and non-blocking (push bytes in,
>> get a chunk of a http message as a result or request for more data) --
>> it'll be simpler to test and will allow porting to lower-level I/O
>> when asio becomes too slow.
>
> About the parser, it's less useful for people than an actual http
> server. I was planning to initially use Ryan Dahl's HTTP parser, then I
> can focus on imediate needs. A parser with a good interface could be
> provided in the future. But... I'm too late and Vinnie Falco just
> suggested the same:
>
> Em Qui, 2014-03-06 às 09:44 -0800, Vinnie Falco escreveu:
>
>> These are good guidelines. Let me point out that the HTTP parser from
>> node.js is permissively licensed, and incredibly robust:
>>
>> https://github.com/joyent/http-parser
>>
>> It's hardened and battle-tested so there are no exploits in it. I use
>> it in my own HTTP message wrapper and handshaking logic. Instead of
>> writing one yourself, I highly recommend that you instead take this
>> http-parser as is and put a boost-worthy C++ front end around it.
>
> The problem with the Ryan Dahl's HTTP parser is that it doesn't support
> arbitrary HTTP methods/verbs. Then it should be replaced in the future.
>
> Em Sex, 2014-03-07 às 10:00 +1100, Dean Michael Berris escreveu:
>
>> [...] However as mentioned if someone would like to take cpp-netlib's
>> 0.11.0
>> version and turn it into a proper Boost.Network library, I'm more than
>> happy to make myself available for Hangouts to get the process going
>> as quickly as possible.
>
> The scope of the cpp-netlib is quite large. I'd like to focus on the
> HTTP server abstraction.
>
> But thanks for the support anyway, Dean. I might bug you for questions
> regarding the cpp-netlib's design.
>
>
>
>
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