[FFmpeg-devel] [GSoC] FFserver libmicrohttpd interface

[Stephan Holljes]

On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 1:00 AM, Stephan Holljes
<klaxa1337 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> After fighting for a bit too long, I am finally submitting this patch series
> that adds the more mature libmicrohttpd library. Client disconnect detection
> is not really taken care of as of now, clients will be disconnected once
> av_interleaved_write_frame() fails. This may be worth looking into more
> closely, see below.
>
> Other fixes and improvements are also contained, the most important ones:
>   - fix compilation (fileserver.c/.h's fileserver_schedule() was broken.
>   - properly handle file requests if no fileserver is running (prevents crash)
>
> At the moment there is a memory-leak I can't seem to fix. It is the connection-
> closure (**con_cls) in lmhttpd.c:answer_to_connection(). In the libmicrohttpd
> examples a function to free it is passed to MHD_create_response_from_callback(),
> however this leads to a heap-use-after-free bug. This happens when a client
> disconnects prematurely.
>
> Another but I could not reliably reproduce is the skipping of segments from the
> server side. It occurs very rarely and as I said I could not reproduce it yet.
>
> There may even be more bugs I am currently unaware of, these just took the
> highest priority for fixing in my opinion.
>

Ping? Also I put everything up here for submission:
https://github.com/klaxa/ffserver

If you want me to submit something different, have suggestions for
changes or something else, please comment.