[Web-SIG] FYI: nbhttp

[Graham Dumpleton]

2009/6/17 Mark Nottingham <mnot at mnot.net>:
> I've recently put up a library that I've been working on for a little while,
> nbhttp:
>  <http://github.com/mnot/nbhttp/tree/master>
>
> "nb" stands for non-blocking; this is explicitly an
> asynchronous/event-driven library, with both a server and a client
> component. They can be trivially used together to implement a proxy.
>
> The aim is to be HTTP/1.1 compliant (and it's most of the way there, with
> the exceptions of expect/continue and pipelining support), to be as
> performant as possible, and to expose as much of the raw protocol as
> possible.
>
> That last motiviation is because nbhttp is used by REDbot
> <http://redbot.org/>, a HTTP resource checker, and it needs "deep" access
> into what's happening on the wire (without intervening software trying to be
> helpful).
>
> It is very rough, mostly undocumented, and will probably crash. It is
> WSGI-like, but not WSGI compatible, because there were a few places where
> WSGI was too constraining. However, it may be useful as food for thought in
> API revisions. Or not. :)

Can you explain the difference to WSGI so that don't have to go
digging through source code to work it out, or is there documentation
somewhere which explains it?

Graham