It's crappy because it uses a busy wait loop to poll the udp
rx socket in order to accurately emulate the Xous async callback
feature (which is _not_ emulated for Tcp, for example).
It's more accurate because this emulation happens. But it's a lot
more complicated to implement it because zero-cost async UDP callbacks
aren't really a host-native feature (but they are a Xous-native feature!),
and I didn't want to .. pull in tokio or mio code surface into
the Xous hosted mode, seemed a bit like crushing a fly by dropping
a house on it. Maybe that's a fine solution in Oz, but Xous doesn't live in Oz.
Total bodge -- we lop off the TCP stack at the Xous API level, and
substitute it with a native host TCP stack.
Caveat hacker: this means that a lot of OS-specific net properties
will carry through to the hosted mode emulation. This is adequate
for "smoke testing" a build but do not be shocked, *shocked* if
there are more bugs to be found because of some weird host integration
issue.
Spent a couple hours chasing down a "bug" which is acutally just
something about how http works that I don't understand. TCP was
working just fine but there is ... idk some sort of keep alive
thing that occupies a socket so the "web server" blocks waiting
for a read. Anyways, I guess the "right" way to solve that would
be to make a multi-threaded web server
OH GOD STOP
right. it's just a demo to prove that TCP works. done.
Open an issue if you find a problem with TCP kthx!
Good enough so that if you type `net server` and you hit the IP
address of the device, it'll respond with something like
Hello from Precursor!
I have been up for 86087 ms.
There's still all kinds of bugs, I'm sure. But ... I'm also not
sure /why/ you would want a web server on Precursor. This is more
just to make sure that the TCP stack isn't totally broken.
The "web server" as it may be is quite broken and doesn't parse
any headers and probably sends a bogus amount of data because
I can't figure out if the content length includes some new lines
or not. But really, this just isn't in scope. Works with Chrome,
Firefox shows the status page and then says "connection reset" and hides
all the information. Whatever, browser compatibility is well beyond
my pay grade!
