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libuv-httpserver

Author: Ryan
Last modified: 2014.12.23

A simple web server based on libuv and http-parser. (only echo Hello, World!\r\n)

Dependencies

It takes lastest stable versions:

Libuv, Release v1.0.2 (released on 2014.12.10)
http-parser, Release v2.3 (released on 2014.5.13)

How to

Make sure you are on OS X, Xcode installed, gyp installed.

git clone [email protected]:Ryannnnnnn/libuv-httpserver.git && cd libuv-httpserver
git submodule update --init

make
./httpserver

Then, curl 127.0.0.1:8888 to test it.

Resources

using libuv and http-parser to build a webserver
- Tutorial by Ryan Dahl (2011), APIs changed, but basic routine stills
learnuv - Learn uv for fun and profit, a self guided workshop to the library that powers Node.js.
- It's of great fun! I passed the first 7 exercises to comprehend libuv APIs
uv.h
- Quick Reference for libuv
Haywire - Haywire is an asynchronous HTTP server framework written in C that's built using the event loop based libuv platform layer that node.js is built on top of.
- Oops!

Benchmark

ab on My Macbook Air (8G, 1.3 GHz): ab -n 10000 -c 100 http://127.0.0.1:8888/

Document Path:          /
Document Length:        16 bytes

Concurrency Level:      100
Time taken for tests:   0.855 seconds
Complete requests:      10000
Failed requests:        0
Total transferred:      810000 bytes
HTML transferred:       160000 bytes
Requests per second:    11696.29 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       8.550 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       0.085 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          925.19 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        2    4   0.8      4      15
Processing:     2    4   1.2      4      15
Waiting:        1    4   1.2      4      15
Total:          6    8   1.6      8      20

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%      8
  66%      9
  75%      9
  80%     10
  90%     10
  95%     11
  98%     12
  99%     19
 100%     20 (longest request)

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