Thanks Igor "Igor R" wrote in message news:CAPnv1PKnkw=8P7EUhatC5qo=TEaBmrLFF+k_XYSkDmQ3QMV8QQ@mail.gmail.com...
I am still not there yet. To close the socket I need to keep a reference/shared_ptr to the connection somewhere. Which basically means I have two shared_ptrs. If a handler reports an error the connection needs to know something about the manager/state machine/whatever to tell it it is closing down, right?
Yes, right. Well, if you're speaking of "http server 3" specifically, you have to change its design a bit. Eg., you can add to the server class something like vector<weak_ptr<connection> > connections_ member, and push there every new_connectio_ -- to get an ability of managing connections. Of course, you have to garbage-collect expired weak-ptrs sometimes, eg. when a new connection is added or on some other event...