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Andreas Kling
eb85103271 ProtocolServer: Send the download payload to clients as a shared buffer
The DownloadFinished message from the server now includes a buffer ID
that can be mapped into the client program.

To avoid prematurely destroying the buffer, the server will hang on to
it until the client lets it know that they're all good. That's what the
ProtocolServer::DisownSharedBuffer message is about.

In the future it would be nice if the kernel had a mechanism to allow
passing ownership of a shared buffer along with an IPC message somehow.
2019-11-23 22:11:44 +01:00
Andreas Kling
fd4349a9f2 ProtocolServer+LibProtocol: Introduce a server for handling downloads
This patch adds ProtocolServer, a server that handles network requests
on behalf of its clients. The first protocol implemented is HTTP.

The idea here is to use a plug-in architecture where any number of
protocols can be added and implemented without having to mess around
with each client program that wants to use the protocol.

A simple client API is provided through LibProtocol::Client. :^)
2019-11-23 21:50:32 +01:00