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diff --git a/web/server/multi/README.md b/web/server/multi/README.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f51073e93 --- /dev/null +++ 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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