[TS-2268] Add support for opening protocol traffic sockets through the traffic_manager

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Component/s: Plugins, TS API
• Labels: api-addition
• Assignee: Uri Shachar
• Reporter: Uri Shachar
• Created: 08/Oct/13 15:27
• Updated: 05/Nov/14 21:21
• Resolved: 05/Nov/14 21:21

Description

Add a TSNetAcceptNamedDescriptor‏(contp, char *) function to allow a protocol plugin to set a callback for accepting new connections on a socket opened by the traffic_manager (that's defined like 2345:plugin:name=myname in the server_ports configuration).

This has three advantages on opening a socket using TSNetAccept:
1) If the traffic_server crashes and restarts, new connections won't be rejected while we recover - This is the main selling point of the new API.
2) Support for all port configuration flags (Which also exists when using TSPortDescriptorAccept)
3) Allow for a single point of configuration for all ATS ports