/* This file is part of libhttpserver Copyright (C) 2011-2025 Sebastiano Merlino This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA */ // external_event_loop.cpp - run the daemon under EXTERNAL_SELECT and // drive it via run_wait() from the application's own loop. The // thread_safety(false) optimization is intentionally omitted for // portability (some MHD builds reject the combination at start). #include #include #include static volatile bool running = true; void signal_handler(int) { running = false; } int main() { signal(SIGINT, signal_handler); httpserver::webserver ws{httpserver::create_webserver(8080) .start_method(httpserver::http::http_utils::EXTERNAL_SELECT)}; ws.on_get("/hello", [](const httpserver::http_request&) { return httpserver::http_response::string("Hello from external event loop!"); }); ws.start(false); std::cout << "Server running on port " << ws.get_bound_port() << std::endl; while (running) { ws.run_wait(1000); // Do other work between iterations as needed. } std::cout << "\nShutting down..." << std::endl; // Graceful shutdown: stop accepting new connections first. ws.quiesce(); ws.stop(); return 0; }