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Convenience functions for processing requests and constructing responses.
Please consult the CoHTTP documentation.
include Cohttp.Generic.Server.S
with type 'a IO.t = 'a
with type IO.conn = Picos_io.Unix.file_descr
with type body = Cohttp.Body.t
module IO :
Cohttp.S.IO with type 'a t = 'a with type conn = Picos_io.Unix.file_descr
type body = Cohttp.Body.t
type conn = IO.conn * Cohttp.Connection.t
A request handler can respond in two ways:
`Response
, with a Response.t
and a body
.`Expert
, with a Response.t
and an IO function that is expected to write the response body. The IO function has access to the underlying IO.ic
and IO.oc
, which allows writing a response body more efficiently, stream a response or to switch protocols entirely (e.g. websockets). Processing of pipelined requests continue after the unitIO.t
is resolved. The connection can be closed by closing the IO.ic
.val respond :
?headers:Http.Header.t ->
?flush:bool ->
status:Http.Status.t ->
body:body ->
unit ->
(Http.Response.t * body) IO.t
respond ?headers ?flush ~status ~body
will respond to an HTTP request with the given status
code and response body
. If flush
is true, then every response chunk will be flushed to the network rather than being buffered. flush
is true by default. The transfer encoding will be detected from the body
value and set to chunked encoding if it cannot be determined immediately. You can override the encoding by supplying an appropriate Content-length
or Transfer-encoding
in the headers
parameter.