The webserver/httpd app is currently broken when script support is enabled (CONFIG_NETUTILS_HTTPD_SCRIPT_DISABLE). The root cause has been tracked down to the "Content-length" not being available ahead of time in this case (length of -1 passed to send_headers() ). On the other hand, the server closing the socket does not result in FIN being sent to the browser either (FIN not supported by NuttX yet).
Simple solution: Add support for HTTP Chunked Encoding to webserver/httpd (attached patch).
The attached patch is simple. It adds a configuration option to enable chunked encoding. When enabled, the implementation will auto-detect the cases where content length is not available ahead of time, and will automatically engage chunked encoding transfers.
Without this patch, the browser/client hangs forever, as it is expecting more data. With this patch, the browser displays the content.
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