Mongrel2: The Language Agnostic Web Server
Mongrel2 is an application, language, and network architecture agnostic web
server that focuses on web applications using modern browser technologies.
Features
- Language Agnostic with a simple backend protocol supporting 17 languages and
platforms all written by Mongrel2 fans. - Modern Browser Friendly designed to handle HTTP, Flash XMLSockets, or
WebSockets, Long Polling on the same socket transparently. - ZeroMQ Enabled as well as HTTP proxy support so it works with what you have
already while giving you new super powers. - Network Architecture Agnostic so you can carve your operations up any way that
reduces costs. - N:M Messaging Patterns means you can have any N handlers answer to any M
browsers arbitrarily, but still easy to do plain request/response. - Automation Loving Configs that are easily accessible via any programming
language with a Model-View-Controller design. - Modern Internal Design using the Mongrel 1 HTTP parser powering many big
companies with a proven security track record, event based I/O, fast
coroutines to handle that I/O, and smart reasonable defaults with zero
configuration needed usually. - Documented, Documented, Documented. We document everything in a well written
manual that shows you how to use every feature. - BSD Licensed and all with a BSD 3-clause license.
- Tir -- An official framework written in Lua that shows how to use Mongrel2 to
create other frameworks for PHP, Python, etc.
Download
mongrel2 is now v1.12.2 as of Fri Jun 14 2019:
Documentation
Go to http://mongrel2.org for more information.