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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/http_client.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/http_client.h | 40 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/lib/http_client.h b/lib/http_client.h index 623f17a0..e2c0319a 100644 --- a/lib/http_client.h +++ b/lib/http_client.h @@ -25,23 +25,26 @@ /* http_client allows you to talk (asynchronously, again) to HTTP servers. In the "background" it will send the whole query and wait for a complete - response to come back. Right now it's only used by the MSN Passport - authentication code, but it might be useful for other things too (for - example the AIM usericon patch uses this so icons can be stored on - webservers instead of the local filesystem). + response to come back. Initially written for MS Passport authentication, + but used for many other things now like OAuth and Twitter. - Didn't test this too much, but it seems to work well. Just don't look - at the code that handles HTTP 30x redirects. ;-) The function is - probably not very useful for downloading lots of data since it keeps - everything in a memory buffer until the download is completed (and - can't pass any data or whatever before then). It's very useful for - doing quick requests without blocking the whole program, though. */ + It's very useful for doing quick requests without blocking the whole + program. Unfortunately it doesn't support fancy stuff like HTTP keep- + alives. */ #include <glib.h> #include "ssl_client.h" struct http_request; +typedef enum http_client_flags +{ + HTTPC_STREAMING = 1, + HTTPC_EOF = 2, + + /* Let's reserve 0x1000000+ for lib users. */ +} http_client_flags_t; + /* Your callback function should look like this: */ typedef void (*http_input_function)( struct http_request * ); @@ -52,28 +55,31 @@ struct http_request { char *request; /* The request to send to the server. */ int request_length; /* Its size. */ - int status_code; /* The numeric HTTP status code. (Or -1 + short status_code; /* The numeric HTTP status code. (Or -1 if something really went wrong) */ char *status_string; /* The error text. */ char *reply_headers; char *reply_body; int body_size; /* The number of bytes in reply_body. */ - /* int finished; Set to non-0 if the request was completed - successfully. */ - int redir_ttl; /* You can set it to 0 if you don't want + short redir_ttl; /* You can set it to 0 if you don't want http_client to follow them. */ + http_client_flags_t flags; + http_input_function func; gpointer data; /* Please don't touch the things down here, you shouldn't need them. */ - void *ssl; int fd; int inpa; int bytes_written; int bytes_read; + + /* Used in streaming mode. Caller should read from reply_body. */ + char *sbuf; + size_t sblen; }; /* The _url variant is probably more useful than the raw version. The raw @@ -82,3 +88,7 @@ struct http_request are also supported (using ssl_client). */ struct http_request *http_dorequest( char *host, int port, int ssl, char *request, http_input_function func, gpointer data ); struct http_request *http_dorequest_url( char *url_string, http_input_function func, gpointer data ); + +/* For streaming connections only; flushes len bytes at the start of the buffer. */ +void http_flush_bytes( struct http_request *req, size_t len ); +void http_close( struct http_request *req ); |