Display dynamic content from embedded web server

Question

I have an embedded device running a slimmed down version of a HTTP server. Currently, it can display static HTML pages. Here is an example of how it displays a static HTML page:

char *text="HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\nContent-Type: text/html\r\n\r\n"
"<html><body>Hello World!</body></html>";
IPWrite(socket, (uint8*)text, (int)strlen(text));
IPClose(socket);

What I'd like to do is display dynamic content, e.g. a reading from a sensor. What I thought of so far is to have the page refresh every once in awhile with

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="600">

and use sprintf() to attach the sensor reading to the text variable for the response.

Is there a way I can do this without having to refresh the page constantly?

What web server are you running a "slimmed down version" of? — Jay Elston, Mar 08 '12 at 01:27
It's a custom HTTP server written for the [Plasma RTOS](http://opencores.org/project,plasma) — alexb, Mar 08 '12 at 02:59

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 07 '12 at 18:32

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You could theoretically implement WebSockets on your server. And have the server fire updates manually. Either that or use long polling. The tough part for you would be implementing either properly. But it could be done.

answered Mar 07 '12 at 18:32

Michael Brown

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