Asynchronous http server. Uses asyncore - the server is dispatcher, http handler is separate class (async_chat) and sending content via fifo producer (ContentProducer class) Can work in several workers (the default is 10). In current realization supports only http/1.0 without cgi, ssl and only for GET, HEAD, POST methods Parameters description: -h (--help) - print help -r (--root) - set server root directiry for content storing. Default is /var/www/html -p (--port) - listening port for the server. Default is 8080 -i (--interface) - interface for listening socket of the server. Default is 0.0.0.0 (all available) -l (--log) - path for logging. Default is console output -w (--workers) - number of process instances (workers) of the server. Default is 10 --forbidden_methods - http methods banned for the server (http code 405 will be send). (like POST)

Example of using:

python httpd.py -p 8080 --interface=0.0.0.0 -w 10 --forbidden_methods=POST

Simple load test:

ab -c 100 -n 50000 -r http://localhost:8080/

Results:

Server Software:        Linux
Server Hostname:        localhost
Server Port:            8080

Document Path:          /
Document Length:        11321 bytes

Concurrency Level:      100
Time taken for tests:   9.988 seconds
Complete requests:      50000
Failed requests:        0
Total transferred:      575200000 bytes
HTML transferred:       566050000 bytes
Requests per second:    5006.09 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       19.976 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       0.200 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          56240.30 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0   13 120.7      1    3041
Processing:     0    6   6.3      4     417
Waiting:        0    3   5.6      2     416
Total:          0   19 122.0      5    3442

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
50%      5
66%      7
75%      9
80%     10
90%     13
95%     16
98%     23
99%   1016
100%   3442 (longest request)