[CONF] Apache MINA > MINA 3.0 HTTP Codec

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MINA 3.0 HTTP Codec Page added by Julien Vermillard Key ideas I started this project because I needed a well know codec for testing MINA 3.0 ideas and because I needed some "Lego" bricks for building very specialized HTTP servers and proxy. The goal of the http module is to provide : a low level codec for encoding/decoding HTTP request, response and body element. the plumber for building HTTP server or client easily. a simple HTTP server and a simple HTTP client for benchmarking MINA 3.0 I/O processing What is not going to be A full feature web client/server like AsyncWeb, Deft, Apache HC nor a web servlet container but it can be a basis for building all this kind of project. HTTP elements A HTTP client send a HTTP request to the server and it replies with a HTTP response. It often modelled ( in AsyncWeb, Deft and javax.servlet API) using a HttpRequest and a HttpResponse object. It's a good idea until you want to send big body contents (in HTTP request post/put or in HTTP response). For example in Asyncweb you are doomed to create te whole HTTP object in memory. the same problem occurs with streaming and Comet style server. That why in MINA 3.0 HTTP codec the elements and splitted a stream of different class. For HTTP Response : an HttpResponse, followed 0..N ByteBuffer compounding the body and a HttpEndOfBody marking the end of the HTTP response. For HTTP Request : an HttpRequest, and if it's a POST or PUT : 0..N ByteBuffer compounding the body and a HttpEndOfBody. Change Notification Preferences View Online | Add Comment