ESP32 library missing WebServerSecure ?

[Twilight-Logic]

Hardware:

Board: ESP32 Devkit V1, NodeMCU-32s compatible
ESP32 WROOM-32 WiFi module
Core Installation version: 1.0.4
IDE name: Arduino IDE 1.8.10, 1.8.12
Flash Frequency: not sure
PSRAM enabled: not sure
Upload Speed: 115200
Computer OS: Windows 7, Linux Mint 19.2

Description:

On the ESP32, WebServer corresponds to the ESP8266WebServer module. However, I am puzzled by the fact that when I type in #include <WebServerSecure.h> it turns bold red as though it was a recognized module, but I then get a compiler error telling me:

WebServerSecure.h: No such file or directory
Investigating further, the corresponding paths in each library were compared:

~/.arduino15/packages/esp8266/hardware/esp8266/2.6.3/libraries/ESP8266WebServer

and

~/.arduino15/packages/esp32/hardware/esp32/1.0.4/libraries/WebServer

Among other things, these paths contains a file called keywords.txt. The ESP32 version contains as follows:

Code: [Select]

#######################################

Datatypes (KEYWORD1)

#######################################

WebServer KEYWORD1
WebServerSecure KEYWORD1
HTTPMethod KEYWORD1

So clearly 'WebServerSecure' is present as a defined keyword. However, although the ESP8266 path contains ESP8266WebServerSecure.h the ESP32 path does NOT contain a corresponding WebServerSecure.h as perhaps might be expected. Furthermore, the path ~/.arduino15/packages/esp8266/hardware/esp8266/2.6.3/libraries/ESP8266WiFi/src contains WiFiServerSecure.h, whereas the equivalent ESP32 library does not.

Having had a look at the ESP32 Git repository I discover the same.

Can anyone shed any light on this? Is this a file omission from the library, or was the secure version never implemented?

Sketch:

n/a

//Change the code below by your sketch
#include <Arduino.h>
#include <WebServer.h>
#include <WebServerSecure.h>

void setup() {
}

void loop() {
}

Debug Messages:

Arduino: 1.8.12 (Linux), Board: "NodeMCU-32S, 80MHz, 921600"

Multiple libraries were found for "WiFi.h"
AR488-ESP32-test2:73:33: fatal error: WebServerSecure.h: No such file or directory
 Used: /home/johnc/.arduino15/packages/esp32/hardware/esp32/1.0.4/libraries/WiFi
compilation terminated.
 Not used: /opt/arduino/libraries/WiFi
exit status 1
WebServerSecure.h: No such file or directory

This report would have more information with
"Show verbose output during compilation"
option enabled in File -> Preferences.

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[Twilight-Logic]

Could we have a reply to this please?

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[OBorce]

+1 for WebServerSecure

[Twilight-Logic]

Still waiting for a reply from the devs?

[luc-github]

why not use https://github.com/fhessel/esp32_https_server ?
there is even a compat layer : https://github.com/fhessel/esp32_https_server_compat

[Twilight-Logic]

Tried that. I did spend a few days re-developing my code for this library and even contacted the author because I had some issues with it which he was able to help me resolve. However, this library is completely different, MUCH bigger in terms of code size and memory usage, much more complex, and seems VERY slow. Furthermore this library is not available for the ESP8266 so this means I would have to support two separate code bases for the ESP8266 and ESP32 when surely a compatible and consistent approach could have been implemented?

[luc-github]

hmm https://github.com/fhessel/esp32_https_server_compat do not use same syntax for API ?
EDIT: forget it I missed https://github.com/fhessel/esp32_https_server_compat#state-of-development

[Twilight-Logic]

I had not noticed the esp32_https_server_compat library before. Thanks for pointing it out. This does add another layer and hence further overhead and the quoted inefficiency of POST handling and support for Basic authentication only might be issues, but still worth a test perhaps. I will have a look at it.

[luc-github]

Looking at https://github.com/fhessel/esp32_https_server_compat#state-of-development still some work need to be done so not sure it will meet your expectation anyway

For what it worth, on my side, I have noticed arduino Esp32 core webserver is slower than esp8266 so I do not think https version will be faster - I did not tested esp32_https_server yet but got good feedback and it is actively maintained

Another solution would be to use the native http / https from IDF - it is async and looks faster as it is used for camera but API is limited and need to be ported :

https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/blob/master/tools/sdk/include/esp_http_server/esp_http_server.h / https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/tree/master/tools/sdk/include/esp_https_server

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[ZakCodes]

I think this should stay opened