Author :
John Fremlin
Date :
2017-12-01 01:29:32
Hash :727bcea1 Message :http: add callback to allow server to decline (and thereby close) incoming connections.
This is important, as otherwise clients can easily exhaust the file
descriptors available on a libevent HTTP server, which can cause
problems in other code which does not handle EMFILE well: for example,
see https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/11368
Closes: #578 (patch cherry picked)
John Fremlin