bharath venkatesh wrote: > hi, > will this twisted,turbo gear etc help me to create a http server that > can serve multiple clients concurrently....
Yes. Google for the projects and do some reading, they are all serving large web sites with sometimes havy demand. > and also the http server which i want to create in my project will not > be doing any IO (it is not like frontend and backend ).. but it will > act as a image_proxy_server i.e when a client wants an image it will do > a http request to my http server if the image is present in cache it > will fetch it directly from cache and return it to the client as an > http reponse otherwise it fetch from www and store it cache and > also return it to the client as an http response so basically i want to > serve many clients concurrently in fast n efficient manner > Sorry: reading from and writing to the network *is* I/O (the data is outside the proess, isn't it?). This might be OK as a learning exercise, but if you just need this in production as quickly as possible I would imagine some combination of Squid and Apache would meet your needs very nicely. > On Feb 20, 2008 5:51 AM, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > bharath venkatesh wrote: > > hi > > i want to create fast n efficient http server which serve multiple > > client concurrently .. so i thought of threading the http server > using > > Threads ain't efficient for IO bound problems like a HTTP server. Most > OSs have far better ways to deal with IO bound applications like > select(), poll(), epoll(), kqueue() or IOCP. > > Use Twisted :) > regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
