Simple, secure & standards compliant web server for the most demanding of applications
Previous release did not fix all problems with, for instance, underscores in HTTP field names. This release properly fixes such cases and also makes the HTTP server 14% faster in user space.
A new benchmarking project has been added for reliably benchmarking the entire user space portion of the server by overriding epoll syscalls with traffic producing alternatives. This is a similar approach to how we currently fuzz the user space.
A misinterpretation of the spec. has been fixed re. HTTP field names. If you rely on field names that aren't just alphanum + hyphen, this release should fix your use.
Having multiple URL routes with differently named parameter segments at the same depth in the routing tree would cause the order of matching to be potentially different from what the documentation stated.
This release fixes that, and adds more testing for this scenario.
We've always supported multi-CPU scaling as detailed in the HelloWorldThreaded.cpp
example and benchmarking blog posts. However, this example has only been properly supported on Linux systems and contained some really ugly boiler plate code.
This release adds the uWS::LocalCluster
helper that works properly on Windows, macOS, Linux and makes it easy to take any single-CPU app and make it scale over all available CPU-cores by default:
uWS::App(options).get(pattern, handler).listen(port, handler).run();
simply becomes
uWS::LocalCluster(options, [](uWS::App &app) {
app.get(pattern, handler).listen(port, handler);
});
This is reflected in the updated HelloWorldThreaded.cpp example and works for both SSL and non-SSL clusters.
/* Define a parameter route */
.get("/:first/static/:second", [](auto *res, auto *req) {
/* Use the value of a parameter as response */
res->write("<h1>first is: ");
res->write(req->getParameter("first"));
res->write("</h1>");
res->write("<h1>second is: ");
res->write(req->getParameter("second"));
res->end("</h1>");
})