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ACCF_HTTP(9)          DragonFly Kernel Developer's Manual         ACCF_HTTP(9)


NAME

     accf_http -- buffer incoming connections until a certain complete HTTP
     requests arrive


SYNOPSIS

     options INET
     options ACCEPT_FILTER_HTTP
     kldload accf_http


DESCRIPTION

     This is a filter to be placed on a socket that will be using accept() to
     receive incoming HTTP connections.

     It prevents the application from receiving the connected descriptor via
     accept() until either a full HTTP/1.0 or HTTP/1.1 HEAD or GET request has
     been buffered by the kernel.

     If something other than a HTTP/1.0 or HTTP/1.1 HEAD or GET request is
     received the kernel will allow the application to receive the connection
     descriptor via accept().

     The utility of accf_http is such that a server will not have to context
     switch several times before performing the initial parsing of the
     request.  This effectively reduces the amount of required CPU utilization
     to handle incoming requests by keeping active processes in preforking
     servers such as Apache low and reducing the size of the filedescriptor
     set that needs to be managed by interfaces such as select(), poll() or
     kevent() based servers.

     The accf_http kernel option is also a module that can be enabled at run-
     time via kldload(8) if the INET option has been compiled into the kernel.


EXAMPLES

     Assuming ACCEPT_FILTER_HTTP has been included in the kernel config file
     or the accf_http module has been loaded, this will enable the http accept
     filter on the socket sok.

             struct accept_filter_arg afa;

             bzero(&afa, sizeof(afa));
             strcpy(afa.af_name, "httpready");
             setsockopt(sok, SOL_SOCKET, SO_ACCEPTFILTER, &afa, sizeof(afa));


SEE ALSO

     setsockopt(2), accept_filter(9)


HISTORY

     The accept filter mechanism and the accf_http filter were introduced in
     FreeBSD 4.0.


AUTHORS

     This manual page and the filter were written by Alfred Perlstein.

DragonFly 3.5                  November 15, 2000                 DragonFly 3.5

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