H2O
Infrastructure
web server
SHOW HN2014
How HN took it
6 positive, 12 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 6 critical, out of 25 comments about the project. Thread score 0.00.
Performance: 1 for, 4 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 1 againstIdea: 1 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Fast and well-written code
From 2 comments
That's a very good code. Succinct and readable. You clearly now your C well :)
huhtenberg on HNLooking at the tangentially linked qrintf project that H2O uses ( https://github.com/h2o/qrintf ), replacing generic sprintf calls with specialised versions for a 10x speed boost…
Shish2k on HN
Objections
Performance gains matter little since webservers are rarely the bottleneck
From 2 comments
Very nice work, competition is always good. However, it seems worth mentioning that webservers haven't been a bottleneck for a long time now. Your bottleneck is always disk I/O,…
moe on HNThat's a cool project. Performance is a fascinating topic. However, in the real world, the number of requests per second a http daemon can perform is the last thing to worry…
jvehent on HN
Not a complete HTTP server; missing features compared to nginx
From 1 comment
This doesn't look like a complete HTTP server, comparing it with nginx is not fair. . It's missing content-encoding handling on the receiving side . No http continue support . No…
halayli on HN
Benchmark fairness and HTTP parsing approach questioned
From 2 comments
I'm skeptical of the performance numbers. First, like others here I don't believe nginx's performance will be a bottleneck for HTTP/2. Beyond that, I suspect there are cases in…
scottlamb on HNOmitting one feature might not but things add up. Compare HTTP parsing in nginx with this one and you'll notice how much more rigor nginx is about it. Parsing transfer-encoding…
halayli on HN
Requests
Support nginx-style configuration files
From 1 comment
Congrats on shipping! This project looks very interesting already and will hopefully pick up more contributors. Is there already support for configuration files? Because for me…
rkrzr on HN
HTTPS support for upstream reverse proxy connections
From 1 comment
Looks very promising! I am not so much into web-servers (yet), but I found this in the feature list: ``` reverse proxy HTTP/1 only (no HTTPS) ``` Are there any plans to add also…
PythonicAlpha on HN
Lua scripting support
From 1 comment
Any plans to get script support, like nginx access_by_lua?
xfalcox on HN
Questions
Is SPDY supported?
From 1 comment
Is spdy supported?
mp3geek on HN
Does one developer work on it, and is there commercial support?
From 1 comment
Obviously it's great software. Does Kazuho work alone on this ? If it's meant to replace nginx, it needs a lot of other options/functions/extensions/modules/... Is it getting…
jarnix on HN
Alternatives named
nginx
From 2 comments
Congrats on shipping! This project looks very interesting already and will hopefully pick up more contributors. Is there already support for configuration files? Because for me…
rkrzr on HNThis doesn't look like a complete HTTP server, comparing it with nginx is not fair. . It's missing content-encoding handling on the receiving side . No http continue support . No…
halayli on HN
Apache
From 1 comment
> in fact the main reason I'm using nginx over Apache is that I don't want to deal with .htaccess any more. Wait, you don't use Apache because you don't like .htaccess files?
currysausage on HN
OpenBSD httpd
From 1 comment
Another one to keep an eye on might be the new httpd in OpenBSD. http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man8/httpd.8 I'm not seeing that there is yet a portable…
ams6110 on HN