Haywire is an asynchronous HTTP server framework written in C. The goal of Haywire is to learn how to create a server with a minimal feature set that can handle a high rate of requests and connections with as low of latency and resource usage as possible.
Haywire uses the event loop based libuv platform layer that node.js is built on top of (also written in C). libuv abstracts IOCP on Windows and epoll/kqueue/event ports/etc. on Unix systems to provide efficient asynchronous I/O on all supported platforms.
Haywire isn't very useful yet but I wanted to open source it from the very beginning. I started experimenting with a HTTP server for Dazzle queries and I decided I would split it into it's own project.
- Cross platform (Windows, Linux, OSX)
- HTTP keep-alive
- HTTP pipelining
- Non-blocking I/O
- HTTP handler routing
- SPDY support
- Export an API that is easily consumable by other languages like on the JVM (Java, etc) and the CLR (C#, etc)
Feel free to join in if you feel like helping progress Haywire. I'm open to new ideas and would love to work with some people instead of by myself!
To compile Haywire you need git and python installed and in your path.
Haywire uses gyp which supports generating make type builds or Visual Studio and Xcode projects. The Visual Studio and Xcode projects aren't fully complete so they may not function just yet but they will real soon, hang in there.
git clone https://github.com/kellabyte/Haywire.git
./build.sh
Open the Developer Command Prompt for Visual Studio
build.bat