eventmachine_httpserver

= eventmachine_httpserver

== EM::HttpServer vs Thin

 +careo | is there a 25 word version of how it differs from thin?
  +tmm1 | good question.. its probably faster, but only because it doesn't have a real http parser like thin

+wyhaines | It is faster. It's more of an nginx style parser than the mongrel, grammar based parser. +careo | so perhaps a better fit for putting an http interface on top of a bunch of already-evented code? +wyhaines | careo: It depends. There are very valid arguments for using an RFC-compliant parser a lot of the time. +wyhaines | But, yeah, sometimes being strictly RFC compliant isn't something that you care about.

== Usage example

require 'eventmachine' require 'evma_httpserver'

class MyHttpServer < EM::Connection include EM::HttpServer

 def post_init
   super
   no_environment_strings
 end

def process_http_request
  # the http request details are available via the following instance variables:
  #   @http_protocol
  #   @http_request_method
  #   @http_cookie
  #   @http_if_none_match
  #   @http_content_type
  #   @http_path_info
  #   @http_request_uri
  #   @http_query_string
  #   @http_post_content
  #   @http_headers

  response = EM::DelegatedHttpResponse.new(self)
  response.status = 200
  response.content_type 'text/html'
  response.content = '<center><h1>Hi there</h1></center>'
  response.send_response
end

end

EM.run{ EM.start_server '0.0.0.0', 8080, MyHttpServer }