Disconnecting clients from SoupServer

[Rune Saetre <rune saetre aptomar com>]

Hi

I am using libsoup to write a web server application that delivers data at 
a constant rate to clients. As data becomes ready I call 
soup_message_body_append() and soup_server_unpause_message(), and I can 
monitor progress by connecting to the signals SoupMessage::wrote-chunk or 
SoupMessage::wrote-body-data.

If clients do not read the data fast enough or if they hang completely the 
server needs to disconnect the clients. How can this be done?

I have tried using soup_client_context_get_socket() to get the SoupSocket 
for the client connection and then calling soup_socket_disconnect(), 
hoping that this would trigger the same behaviour as when the client 
closes the TCP connection. But so far I have only ended up with a libsoup 
in an unusable state, where it usually segfaults at some random 
location shortly afterwarsd.

Is it safe calling soup_socket_disconnect() from a different thread than 
the one running GMainLoop? How about calling it from signal handlers, are 
there any that should be avoided? Are there alternatives to to 
soup_socket_disconnect() for disconnecting nonresponsive clients?

Regards
Rune Sætre