From e76aac74e69c7dd03060e800e206eee777661a0c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Costa Tsaousis Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 17:31:52 +0300 Subject: moved related wiki pages into the repo (#4428) * moved related wiki pages into the repo * updated web server docs * fixed typos --- web/server/multi/README.md | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'web/server/multi/README.md') 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. \ No newline at end of file -- cgit v1.2.3