Add an --enable-httpd-websocket configure option to enable WebSocket in the Mongoose HTTP server

[Sebastian Huber]

Hello Nick,

what is the benefit of providing this WebSocket stuff?

On 03/12/14 07:10, Nick Withers wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-01-02 at 10:45 +1100, Nick Withers wrote:
>> On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 15:38 +1100, Nick Withers wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> The attached patch adds an "--enable-httpd-websocket" configure option
>>> to enable WebSocket (see http://www.websocket.org ,
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSocket ) in the Mongoose HTTP server.
>> In case it's preferred, the attached patch unconditionally enables
>> WebSocket support in the Mongoose HTTP server.
>>
>> The (PowerPC) psim mghttpd01.exe goes from 5708594 B to 5736668 B with
>> this change, an extra 28074 B.
> Any thoughts on this one?
>
> I'll likely have to regenerate patches, but to enable building the
> Mongoose HTTP server with WebSocket, would we prefer to:
>    - Add an "--enable-httpd-websocket" configure option
>    - Unconditionally enable the feature
>    - Force the user to patch the RTEMS source?
>
> Cheers!

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