- utils is the low level library used by the others
- mfapi uses utils and implements the api and some wrappers
- mfshell uses mfapi and utils to provide a shell
- cfile.h needed too many function calls and was too complex
- connection.h does
- only download in binary mode (json can handle that)
- have no excess of getters and setters
- allow to execute the whole request in a single function call
- allow to be re-used for multiple requests
- as a result, the code has 600 lines of code less
- originally, connection.h was developed to use a global curl
handle for all requests such that the same connection could be
re-used. Unfortunately the MediaFire servers will close the
connection after each request from their end:
Bryan: "Unfortunately, we won't ever do keep-alive. Closing the
connection is a small part of a larger set of heuristics we have in
place to prevent DOS/DDOS attacks."
This causes massive performance impacts and those grow even larger when
using SSL because the handshake has to be executed for every single
request again.
