Show HN: Pure C Asynchronous HTTP Framework

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Post by adamansky » Fri, Apr 15, 2022, 5:06 AM UTC

Show HN: Pure C Asynchronous HTTP Framework
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Re: Show HN: Pure C Asynchronous HTTP Framework

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Post by andoma » Fri, Apr 15, 2022, 10:29 AM UTC

Nice to see BearSSL being used. Definitely my favorite SSL library. No memory allocations by the lib itself. Still missing TLS1.3 though.

Re: Show HN: Pure C Asynchronous HTTP Framework

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Post by christophilus » Fri, Apr 15, 2022, 12:21 PM UTC

Looks interesting.

There’s also facil[0], and h20 (though the latter is more of a standalone thing, it seems).

It might be fun to try to build something on top of them in something like Chicken Scheme or Janet.

[0] https://facil.io/

Re: Show HN: Pure C Asynchronous HTTP Framework

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Post by kovac » Fri, Apr 15, 2022, 12:30 PM UTC

Code looks pristine. Very nice!

Re: Show HN: Pure C Asynchronous HTTP Framework

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Post by iforgotpassword » Fri, Apr 15, 2022, 12:58 PM UTC

christophilus wrote: post #3

Looks interesting. There’s also facil[0], and h20 (though the latter is more of a standalone thing, it seems). It might be fun to try to build something on top of them in something like Chicken Scheme or Janet. [0] https://facil.io/

h2o still is pretty modular and it's easy to for example rip out their http/1.1 parser and use it. Other projects tend to accumulate a large utils.h or similar over time wrapping every other libc function, have typedefs, macros left and right etc. so you'd either pull all this in too or spend a few days undoing everything.

Re: Show HN: Pure C Asynchronous HTTP Framework

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Post by andyzzzz » Fri, Apr 15, 2022, 1:25 PM UTC

interesting project!

Re: Show HN: Pure C Asynchronous HTTP Framework

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Post by yawboakye » Fri, Apr 15, 2022, 1:43 PM UTC

andoma wrote: post #2

Nice to see BearSSL being used. Definitely my favorite SSL library. No memory allocations by the lib itself. Still missing TLS1.3 though.

out of curiosity is it no allocations because it's bring your own buffer?

Re: Show HN: Pure C Asynchronous HTTP Framework

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Apr 15, 2022, 1:44 PM UTC

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Re: Show HN: Pure C Asynchronous HTTP Framework

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Post by andoma » Fri, Apr 15, 2022, 2:11 PM UTC

yawboakye wrote: post #7

andoma wrote: post #2

Nice to see BearSSL being used. Definitely my favorite SSL library. No memory allocations by the lib itself. Still missing TLS1.3 though.

out of curiosity is it no allocations because it's bring your own buffer?

Yes.

Re: Show HN: Pure C Asynchronous HTTP Framework

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Post by synergy20 » Fri, Apr 15, 2022, 3:00 PM UTC

andoma wrote: post #2

Nice to see BearSSL being used. Definitely my favorite SSL library. No memory allocations by the lib itself. Still missing TLS1.3 though.

very interested in this project, bearssl is released as beta quality, not sure how active it is developed these days but I'm happy to get rid of the heavy openssl when possible especially for embedded devices.