On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 9:23 PM, ajil koshy <ajil.koshy_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have just started using libcurl library. I had a question about how we
> can implement full duplex communication using libcurl library. I have
> writting an HTTP client and server application. The client is implemented
> using libcurl.
>
> The client and server are intended to have bi-directional communication in
> the following fashion. It will consist of one HTTP request-response exchange
> between client server using HTTP pipe-lining.
>
> 1) Client opens a TCP connection to the server.
> 2) Client sends an HTTP request header that includes
> “transfer-encoding:chunked” header. Since it is chunked transfer, the
> client may further send any data that it intends the server to receive and
> finally send a 0 length packet when it is done sending.
> 3) On receiving first HTTP request, server sends back an HTTP response
> header containing “transfer-encoding:chunked”. As in case of the client,
> it can now send all the data it wishes client ot receive in the form of
> chunks and finally send a 0 length chunk.
>
> The problem is my client should be able to send and receive data
> simultaneously over the TCP connection that has been opened with server.
> Obviously, this cannot be done on a single thread as my send/recv calls will
> be serialized. As per documentation, libcurl easy handle cannot be shared
> across threads. So is there a way this can be done? I am using
> curl_easy_send () and curl_easy_recv () functions and constructing HTTP
> headers by myself.
>
> I have read that pipe-lining is supported only using the multi-interface.
> However, I could not find an example of full-duplex communication in the
> list of source examples. Please let me know if this is possible. Thanks in
> advance.
>
> Thanks
> Ajil Koshy
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> List admin: http://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library
> Etiquette: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html
>

If i may ask. Do you really need this communication to be done over http? It
sounds that non-http (regular socket?) server/client app suits your case
better. Just a piece of my mind :)

*Amr*

-------------------------------------------------------------------
List admin: http://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library
Etiquette: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html
Received on 2011-03-20