Wiki. NGINX is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy, as well as an IMAP/POP3 proxy server. NGINX is known for its high performance, stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. NGINX is one of a handful of servers written to address the C10K problem. Simple Webmachine – Proper HTTP Resources « BeerRiot Blog. Update: This post sparked my Webmachine nerve in such a way that I wrote four more posts about extending the resource described below.
Read them if you’d like to see how this resource can evolve. This morning I read a post about CouchDB’s HTTP Handlers. Jón Grétar Borgþórsson demonstrates how one might implement a handler that serves a JSON structure describing the OS environment variables. I thought that two additional pieces of code might be interesting. I’ll lead with an example showing the most likely way this resource would have been coded for Webmachine: Nginx. HTTP Debugger - Fiddler2.