/* This file is part of libhttpserver Copyright (C) 2011-2025 Sebastiano Merlino This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA */ // pipe_response_example.cpp - stream a response from the read end of a // pipe that a background thread writes into. The lambda owns the // short-lived pipe + writer; ownership of the read-end fd transfers // into the response. #if defined(_WIN32) && !defined(__CYGWIN__) #include #include #else #include #endif #include #include #include #include namespace { // Production-ready: writes the whole buffer, retrying short writes and // resuming after an EINTR-interrupted call. Returns false on a hard // error. On Windows `write`/`errno` are the CRT `_write`/`errno`; EINTR // never fires there, so the loop is a zero-cost wrapper and stays // portable. bool write_all(int fd, const char* buf, size_t len) { size_t off = 0; while (off < len) { ssize_t n = write(fd, buf + off, len - off); if (n < 0) { if (errno == EINTR) continue; return false; } if (n == 0) return false; off += static_cast(n); } return true; } } // namespace int main() { httpserver::webserver ws{httpserver::create_webserver(8080)}; ws.on_get("/stream", [](const httpserver::http_request&) { int pipefd[2]; #if defined(_WIN32) && !defined(__CYGWIN__) if (_pipe(pipefd, 4096, _O_BINARY) == -1) { #else if (pipe(pipefd) == -1) { #endif return httpserver::http_response::string("pipe failed").with_status(500); } std::thread writer([fd = pipefd[1]]() { const char* messages[] = {"Hello ", "from ", "a pipe!\n"}; for (const char* msg : messages) { // Production-ready: write_all loops to handle partial // writes and EINTR. Stop streaming on a hard error -- // closing the write end signals EOF to the reader. if (!write_all(fd, msg, strlen(msg))) { break; } } close(fd); }); writer.detach(); return httpserver::http_response::pipe(pipefd[0]) .with_header("Content-Type", "text/plain"); }); ws.start(true); return 0; }