Re: [Libevent-users] Re: libevent: HTTP POST service example?

[Mark Ellzey <mthomas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 12:07:32PM -0400, Ron Parker wrote:
> Basile,
> 
> It was my experience with libevent 1.4 that the entire post was buffered prior to callback. At a very minimum this opened my system up to a DOS attack.  Since I didn't find a way to get incremental callbacks in the end I abandoned use of the http layer in libevent. 
> 
> Ron Parker
> Movik Networks
> 

This came up at work for me just the other day. I started (not finished)
implementing a data streamer callback for large request data.

https://github.com/ellzey/Libevent/commit/36218640b3b19fc94a75e2e691fc41ccda81224c
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