Making the 'httpsrc' plugin asynchronous | GSoC 2019
GStreamer plugins are the building units of any GStreamer application. The plugins can be linked and arranged in a pipeline. This pipeline defines the flow of the data. 'souphttpsrc' , aka HTTP source is a plugin which reads data from a remote location specified by a URI and the supported protocols are 'http', 'https'. This plugin is written in C. 'rshttpsrc' is the Rust version of the above said plugin. Although the Rust version of the plugin is working, it is not feature complete. So my task here is to finish 'rshttpsrc' plugin completely. Let me break the task into smaller branches. Switching to async IO (Currently it is making request synchronously). Support for cookie/HTTP connection sharing between multiple instances. Making 'rshttpsrc' feature equivalent to 'souphttpsrc' (the C version of the same plugin). There are properties missing in 'rshttpsrc' which are implemented in C version of the plugin