Commit 60674c11 authored by Sergey Lyubka's avatar Sergey Lyubka

API docs regarding MG_POLL changed

parent 91c9ab80
......@@ -71,16 +71,16 @@ occur. Sequence of events for the accepted connection is this:
certain prefix, and let Mongoose serve all static files.
If event handler decides to serve the request, but doesn't have
all the data at the moment, it should return `MG_MORE`. That tells
Mongoose to send `MG_POLL` events on each iteration of `mg_poll_server()`
Mongoose to keep the connection open after callback returns.
`mg_connection::connection_param` pointer is a placeholder to keep
user-specific data. For example, handler could decide to open a DB
connection and store DB connection handle in `connection_param`.
* `MG_POLL` is sent only to those connections which returned `MG_MORE`.
Event handler should try to complete the reply. If reply is completed,
then event handler should return `MG_TRUE`. Otherwise, it should
return `MG_FALSE`, and polling will continue until
handler returns `MG_TRUE`.
* `MG_POLL` is sent to every connection on every iteration of
`mg_poll_server()`. Event handler should return `MG_FALSE` to ignore
this event. If event handler returns `MG_TRUE`, then Mongoose assumes
that event handler has finished sending data, and Mongoose will
close the connection.
* `MG_HTTP_ERROR` sent when Mongoose is about to send HTTP error back
to the client. Event handler can choose to send a reply itself, in which
case event handler must return `MG_TRUE`. Otherwise, event handler must
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