= eventmachine_httpserver

== EM::HttpServer vs Thin

+careo | is there a 25 word version of how it differs from thin?

+tmm1 | good question.. its probably faster, but only because it doesn't have a real http parser like thin

+wyhaines | It is faster. It's more of an nginx style parser than the mongrel, grammar based parser.

+careo | so perhaps a better fit for putting an http interface on top of a bunch of already-evented code?

+wyhaines | careo: It depends. There are very valid arguments for using an RFC-compliant parser a lot of the time.

+wyhaines | But, yeah, sometimes being strictly RFC compliant isn't something that you care about.

== Usage example

require 'eventmachine'

require 'evma_httpserver'

class MyHttpServer < EM::Connection

include EM::HttpServer

def post_init

super

no_environment_strings

end

def process_http_request

# the http request details are available via the following instance variables:

# @http_protocol

# @http_request_method

# @http_cookie

# @http_if_none_match

# @http_content_type

# @http_path_info

# @http_request_uri

# @http_query_string

# @http_post_content

# @http_headers

response = EM::DelegatedHttpResponse.new(self)

response.status = 200

response.content_type 'text/html'

response.content = '<center><h1>Hi there</h1></center>'

response.send_response

end

end

EM.run{

EM.start_server '0.0.0.0', 8080, MyHttpServer

}