Pool of http connection handlers. More...

#include <httpconnectionhandlerpool.h>

Inheritance diagram for stefanfrings::HttpConnectionHandlerPool:

Collaboration diagram for stefanfrings::HttpConnectionHandlerPool:

Public Member Functions
	HttpConnectionHandlerPool (const QSettings settings, HttpRequestHandler requestHandler)
	Constructor. More...

virtual	~HttpConnectionHandlerPool ()
	Destructor. More...

HttpConnectionHandler *	getConnectionHandler ()
	Get a free connection handler, or 0 if not available. More...

Detailed Description

Pool of http connection handlers.

The size of the pool grows and shrinks on demand.

Example for the required configuration settings:

readTimeout=60000
maxRequestSize=16000
maxMultiPartSize=1000000

minThreads=4
maxThreads=100
cleanupInterval=60000

The readTimeout value defines the maximum time to wait for a complete HTTP request.

MaxRequestSize is the maximum size of a HTTP request. In case of multipart/form-data requests (also known as file-upload), the maximum size of the body must not exceed maxMultiPartSize.

After server start, the size of the thread pool is always 0. Threads are started on demand when requests come in. The cleanup timer reduces the number of idle threads slowly by closing one thread in each interval. But the configured minimum number of threads are kept running.

Additional settings for SSL (HTTPS):

sslKeyFile=ssl/server.key
sslCertFile=ssl/server.crt
;caCertFile=ssl/ca.crt
verifyPeer=false

For SSL support, you need at least a pair of OpenSSL x509 certificate and an RSA key, both files in PEM format. To enable verification of the peer (the calling web browser), you can either use the central certificate store of the operating system, or provide a CA certificate file in PEM format. The certificates of the peers must have been derived from the CA certificate.

Example commands to create these files:

# Generate CA key
openssl genrsa 2048 > ca.key

# Generate CA certificate
openssl req -new -x509 -nodes -days 365000 -key ca.key -out ca.crt

# Generate a server key and certificate request
openssl req -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -days 365000 -keyout server.key -out server.req

# Generate a signed server certificate
openssl x509 -req -days 365000 -set_serial 01 -in server.req -out server.crt -CA ca.crt -CAkey ca.key

# Generate a client key and certificate request
openssl req -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -days 365000 -keyout client.key -out client.req

# Generate a signed client certificate
openssl x509 -req -days 365000 -set_serial 01 -in client.req -out client.crt  -CA ca.crt -CAkey ca.key

# Combine client key and certificate into one PKCS12 file
openssl pkcs12 -export -in client.crt -inkey client.key -out client.p12 -certfile ca.crt

# Remove temporary files
rm *.req

Please note that a listener with SSL can only handle HTTPS protocol. To support both HTTP and HTTPS simultaneously, you need to start two listeners on different ports one with SLL and one without SSL (usually on public ports 80 and 443, or locally on 8080 and 8443).

Definition at line 84 of file httpconnectionhandlerpool.h.