[systemd-devel] SSL for gatewayd

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 09:33:22PM +0100, Holger Winkelmann wrote:
> Can't speak from person experience, but my team has worked with the libevent and
> libev libraries which contain http libraries as well.
IIUC, libev uses libevent code for HTTP through a compatibility
layer. libevent has only very basic functionality. E.g. I couldn't
see a mention of POST requests anywhere. libmicrohttpd at least
abstracts this to the point where I only have to provide a callback
to consume buffers with data.

Also, libevent/libev are about abstracting event loops. Since journald
is linux only, this extra abstraction layer is not very useful.

>  libevent http library is linked to openssl.
Are you saying that openssl is better?

Zbyszek

> On Jan 16, 2013, at 9:18 PM, David Strauss <david at davidstrauss.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
> > <zbyszek at in.waw.pl> wrote:
> >> I would be happy to replace it with something different.
> > 
> > Any recommendations? I've built a few projects with libmicrohttpd. I
> > don't find the library intuitive, but many of the reasons behind
> > design decisions have become clear to me after deeper use. I actually
> > find a lot of it quite clever. I also haven't found many lightweight
> > alternatives that invert the typical model of control by keeping the
> > program in control instead of a web server daemon.