commit 44a85ec4df644043ad17162130c1cdda45f655dc
from: Omar Polo <op@omarpolo.com>
date: Fri Dec 22 17:20:49 2023 UTC

http: add a listen that takes an ip address

I'm still not convinced this is better than
http::listen("localhost:9090", null) but propagating net::dial::dial
errors from a listen function is weird.

commit - f27a90cba23761c4cfa9773e5aed0eb53efc2e32
commit + 44a85ec4df644043ad17162130c1cdda45f655dc
blob - 0d9c7994a7ab2346a7b0ed2658822cebcd5d2c7f
blob + c9f2dce17de9bca5f4a111bba7ebf4508f4899af
--- http/listen.ha
+++ http/listen.ha
@@ -22,14 +22,17 @@
 // OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
 
 use io;
-use net::dns;
+use net::ip;
+use net::tcp;
+use net;
 use strings;
 
 use ev;
 
-// XXX generic listen would be very handy!
-// something like: http::listen("localhost:8080") or maybe even
-// http::listen("unix:/run/foo.sock")
+export fn listen(addr: ip::addr, port: u16, mux: nullable *mux) (void | net::error) = {
+	const socket = tcp::listen(addr, port, tcp::reuseaddr)?;
+	listen_sock(socket, mux);
+};
 
 export fn listen_sock(f: io::file, mux: nullable *mux) void = {
 	ev::add(f, ev::READ, &acceptconn, match(mux) {