Does anyone have context on jdk.httpserver?

[Alan Bateman]

On 07/01/2025 15:18, robert engels wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to revisit this. I have signed the OCA for another PR I worked on - I believe it covers all of my contributions.
>
> The websockets license looks to be very permissive. But it seems like this is something Oracle could reach out to the authors to resolve.

The simple HTTP server in the JDK was never meant to be a fully featured 
and high performance server. Instead it's meant for very simple usages, 
so think getting started, the rite of passage to serve up a file, and 
local testing. If someone wants a production ready server then there are 
dozens to choose from.

So I think highly questionable as to whether it's worth putting any time 
into adding websockets or HTTP/2 support.

> I could also simply create a whiteroom ws impl, as I did for the http2 support - it’s a pretty small surface api.
>
> I am more than willing to work on this, but I need to know what the feasibility is of it actually being included.
>
> Even if the work was limited to “better support for vt”, some of the changes are more extensive (like the SSL handling).
There may be a few small things that would make sense to bring to 
net-dev to discuss. I assume "vt" means virtual threads so if there is 
some issues there then bring them to the mailing list to get some 
agreement that they are worth doing.

-Alan.
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