These buffers are used to avoid allocating too many byte arrays when processing streams and parsing requests.
module Buf_ : sig ... endStreams are used to represent a series of bytes that can arrive progressively. For example, an uploaded file will be sent as a series of chunks.
type byte_stream = {}A buffered stream, with a view into the current buffer (or refill if empty), and a function to consume n bytes. See Byte_stream for more details.
module Byte_stream : sig ... endmodule Meth : sig ... endmodule Headers : sig ... endmodule Request : sig ... endmodule Response_code : sig ... endmodule Response : sig ... endtype tA HTTP server. See create for more details.
val create : ?masksigpipe:bool -> ?max_connections:int -> ?new_thread:((unit -> unit) -> unit) -> ?addr:string -> ?port:int -> unit -> tCreate a new webserver.
The server will not do anything until run is called on it. Before starting the server, one can use add_path_handler and set_top_handler to specify how to handle incoming requests.
if true, block the signal Sys.sigpipe which otherwise tends to kill client threads when they try to write on broken sockets. Default: true.
a function used to spawn a new thread to handle a new client connection. By default it is Thread.create but one could use a thread pool instead.
maximum number of simultaneous connections.
the address (IPv4) to listen on. Default "127.0.0.1".
to listen on. Default 8080.
val addr : t -> stringAddress on which the server listens.
val port : t -> intPort on which the server listens.
val add_decode_request_cb : t -> (unit Request.t -> (unit Request.t * (byte_stream -> byte_stream)) option) -> unitAdd a callback for every request. The callback can provide a stream transformer and a new request (with modified headers, typically). A possible use is to handle decompression by looking for a Transfer-Encoding header and returning a stream transformer that decompresses on the fly.
val add_encode_response_cb : t -> (string Request.t -> Response.t -> Response.t option) -> unitAdd a callback for every request/response pair. Similarly to add_encode_response_cb the callback can return a new response, for example to compress it. The callback is given the fully parsed query as well as the current response.
val set_top_handler : t -> (string Request.t -> Response.t) -> unitSetup a handler called by default.
This handler is called with any request not accepted by any handler installed via add_path_handler. If no top handler is installed, unhandled paths will return a 404 not found.
val add_path_handler : ?accept:(unit Request.t -> (unit, Response_code.t * string) Pervasives.result) -> ?meth:Meth.t -> t -> ('a, Scanf.Scanning.in_channel, 'b, 'c -> string Request.t -> Response.t, 'a -> 'd, 'd) Pervasives.format6 -> 'c -> unitadd_path_handler server "/some/path/%s@/%d/" f calls f "foo" 42 request when a request with path "some/path/foo/42/" is received.
This uses Scanf's splitting, which has some gotchas (in particular, "%s" is eager, so it's generally necessary to delimit its scope with a "@/" delimiter. The "@" before a character indicates it's a separator.
Note that the handlers are called in the reverse order of their addition, so the last registered handler can override previously registered ones.
if provided, only accept requests with the given method. Typically one could react to `GET or `PUT.
should return Ok() if the given request (before its body is read) should be accepted, Error (code,message) if it's to be rejected (e.g. because its content is too big, or for some permission error). See the http_of_dir program for an example of how to use accept to filter uploads that are too large before the upload even starts.
val stop : t -> unitAsk the server to stop. This might not have an immediate effect as run might currently be waiting on IO.
val run : t -> (unit, exn) Pervasives.resultRun the main loop of the server, listening on a socket described at the server's creation time, using new_thread to start a thread for each new client.
This returns Ok () if the server exits gracefully, or Error e if it exits with an error.