From a64a253794ac64cb40befee54db53bde17dd0d49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2018 13:19:29 +0100 Subject: New upstream version 1.11.0+dfsg Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- web/server/multi/README.md | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) create mode 100644 web/server/multi/README.md (limited to 'web/server/multi/README.md') 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. \ No newline at end of file -- cgit v1.2.3