/libevhtp

Create extremely-fast and secure embedded HTTP servers with ease.

Primary LanguageCBSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" LicenseBSD-3-Clause

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Libevhtp

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Building

  • cd build
  • cmake ..
  • make
  • make examples

For Windows MinGW

  • cmake -G "MSYS Makefiles" -DCMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH=/mingw/include -DCMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH=/mingw/lib -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/mingw .
  • make

Performance stuff

While we never documented any benchmark publically, the popular open source project ZIMG did a bit of that for us.The ZIMG team decided to move away from NGINX to libevhtp for their software, and the results were pretty outstanding. Here is a graph showing their application under very high load

ZIMG GRAPH

The X-axis is the number of connections, while the Y-axis is requests per second.

You can read the whole article here: Architecture Design of an Image Server

Slightly outdated (Now faster!) HI NGINX