What is a thread-safe way to break out of a POCO::HTTPSClientSession::receiveResponse?

Question

The receiveResponse call is blocking, and while I run the code on a separate thread, I'd like to be able to cleanly stop the thread at any time. The documentation shows abort() may be what I need, but I can't find any information indicating whether it's thread-safe or not. Thanks,

Answer 1

HTTPSClientSession::abort() calls shutdown() on the socket; that should cause receiveResponse() to return (CORRECTION: to throw ).

HTTP(S)ClientSession has no internal locking but thread-safety here is not really a Poco-related question. If it is safe to call shutdown() on a socket blocked on recv() for your platform/stack, then all is good.