fyrehose is a http based pub/sub daemon. it is quite similar to apache's kafka.

in one shell, type this:

curl localhost:4242/mychannel/subscribe

in another shell run this:

curl -X POST -d "test" localhost:4242/mychannel

publish to a channel:

POST /:channel

subscribe to a channel (responds with http multipart, keep connection open... not supported by all http clients=

GET /:channel/subscribe

retrieve a message at a specific offset (regular http response)

GET /:channel/:offset

retrieve the next message after a specific offset (regular http response)

GET /:channel/:offset/next

retrieve the next :n messages after a specific offset (http multipart response):

GET /:channel/:offset/next/:n

responds with 'pong'

GET /ping

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