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| author | Costa Tsaousis <costa@tsaousis.gr> | 2018-10-18 17:31:52 +0300 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2018-10-18 17:31:52 +0300 |
| commit | e76aac74e69c7dd03060e800e206eee777661a0c (patch) | |
| tree | fa8e082b99d4d85c950f3d5d25385f9d14980c6f /web/server/multi/README.md | |
| parent | 15408ace0c2a81986026dd66446bb216c9b96eb6 (diff) | |
moved related wiki pages into the repo (#4428)
* moved related wiki pages into the repo
* updated web server docs
* fixed typos
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diff --git a/web/server/multi/README.md b/web/server/multi/README.md index e69de29bb2..f51073e930 100644 --- a/web/server/multi/README.md +++ b/web/server/multi/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +# `multi-threaded` web server + +The `multi-threaded` web server spawns a thread for each connection it receives. + +Each thread uses non-blocking I/O so it can serve any number of web requests in parallel, +though this is not supported by HTTP, so in practice each thread serves all the requests sequentially. + +Each thread respects the `keep-alive` HTTP header to serve multiple HTTP requests via the same connection.
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