Resolve #2017

README.md

@@ -125,6 +125,21 @@ int main(void)
     res.set_content(req.body, "text/plain");
   });
 
+  // If the handler takes time to finish, you can also poll the connection state
+  svr.Get("/task", [&](const Request& req, Response& res) {
+    const char * result = nullptr;
+    process.run(); // for example, starting an external process
+    while (result == nullptr) {
+      sleep(1);
+      if (req.is_connection_closed()) {
+        process.kill(); // kill the process
+        return;
+      }
+      result = process.stdout(); // != nullptr if the process finishes
+    }
+    res.set_content(result, "text/plain");
+  });
+
   svr.Get("/stop", [&](const Request& req, Response& res) {
     svr.stop();
   });

httplib.h

@@ -628,6 +628,7 @@ struct Request {
   Ranges ranges;
   Match matches;
   std::unordered_map<std::string, std::string> path_params;
+  std::function<bool()> is_connection_closed = []() { return true; };
 
   // for client
   ResponseHandler response_handler;
@@ -2572,7 +2573,7 @@ inline bool is_field_content(const std::string &s) {
 
 inline bool is_field_value(const std::string &s) { return is_field_content(s); }
 
-}; // namespace fields
+} // namespace fields
 
 } // namespace detail
 
@@ -7217,6 +7218,11 @@ Server::process_request(Stream &strm, const std::string &remote_addr,
     }
   }
 
+  // Setup `is_connection_closed` method
+  req.is_connection_closed = [&]() {
+    return !detail::is_socket_alive(strm.socket());
+  };
+
   // Routing
   auto routed = false;
 #ifdef CPPHTTPLIB_NO_EXCEPTIONS