Kore (https://kore.io) is an ultra fast web server / framework for web applications developed in C. It provides a set of API functions you can use to build a dynamic library which is loaded into Kore directly.
Kore is an ideal candidate for developing robust, fast and safe web applications.
- Supports SNI
- Supports SPDY/3.1
- Supports HTTP/1.1
- Lightweight background tasks
- Built-in parameter validation
- Only HTTPS connections allowed
- Multiple modules can be loaded at once
- Built-in asynchronous PostgreSQL support
- Load your web application as a precompiled C library
- Modules can be reloaded on-the-fly, even while serving content
- Event driven (epoll/kqueue) architecture with per CPU core worker processes
- Kore is licensed under the ISC license
- Linux
- OpenBSD
- FreeBSD
- OSX
See https://kore.io/doc/#requirements for more information.
- [2014-08-25] Version 1.2 - https://kore.io/release/kore-1.2-stable.tgz
- [2014-03-01] Version 1.1 - https://kore.io/release/kore-1.1-stable.tgz
Requirements
- libz
- openssl >= 1.0.1g
Requirements for background tasks
- pthreads
Requirements for pgsql
- libpq
Normal compilation and installation:
# git clone https://github.com/jorisvink/kore.git
# cd kore
# make
# make install
If you would like to build a specific flavor, you can enable those by setting a shell environment variable before running make.
- TASKS=1 (compiles in task support)
- PGSQL=1 (compiles in pgsql support)
- DEBUG=1 (enables use of -d for debug)
- BENCHMARK=1 (compiles Kore without OpenSSL)
- KORE_PEDANTIC_MALLOC=1 (zero all allocated memory)
You can find example libraries under examples/.
The examples contain a README file with instructions on how to build or use them.
I apologize for unclear examples or documentation, I am working on improving those.
If you run into any bugs, have suggestions or patches please contact me at joris@coders.se.
More information can be found on https://kore.io/