For anyone following this thread and interested in what I ended up doing: I found POCO which has a nice networking library that uses the select mechanism and has a multi-thread HTTP server library. It seems to be working well so far.
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Julian Bui <julian...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for replying, Nick. > > I probably cannot use libevhtp because it appears to be too small of a > project to get company approval for my application. We worry about support > and maintenance issues. > > Does anyone have any other suggestions for an embedded http server/library > that has multi-threaded support? > > I've been programming with libevent for a few weeks now and have really > liked the interfaces and capabilities which makes it frustrating to hear > that I won't be able to use the http capabilities because of its threading > limitations. > > -Julian > > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Nick Mathewson <ni...@freehaven.net>wrote: > >> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Julian Bui <julian...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > QUESTIONS: >> > -was evhttp meant to be used this way? Should I not be calling >> > evhttp_send_reply/error from a different thread? I have set >> > up evthread_lock_callbacks, so I would think that a multi-threaded app >> > should work. >> >> I'm pretty sure that evhttp is not safe for use from multiple threads >> at once. If you need an HTTP server library suitable for >> multithreaded use, I'd strongly suggest you take a look at Mark's >> libevhtp; it appears to be much better than evhttp. >> >> -- >> Nick >> *********************************************************************** >> To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@freehaven.net with >> unsubscribe libevent-users in the body. >> > >
