Description
GoHTTP is an early draft, more like a sketch, of a high-performance Go HTTP server framework. It uses the low-level "net/http/httputil" standard package, which provides access to advanced features like pipelining, and is not yet utilized within the standard Go "net/http" infrastructure.
The main point of interest is that decent HTTP proxies must suppport such features, and therefore this draft I am current reviving seems like the only route to implementing a workable web HTTP proxy in Go.
Features
- Core web server infrastructure with out-of-the-box keepalive and pipelining
- Support for limiting the number of file descriptors in use
- A "query" abstraction to handling incoming requests which is more convenient than that of Go's the HTTP package
- A system of "sub-servers" that allows modular handling of different URL sub-paths
- A system of "extensions" which allows modular pre- and post-processing of HTTP header objects like cookies
- A sub-server module for serving static files with basic in-memory file caching
About
GoHTTP is maintained by Petar Maymounkov.