NAME thrall - a simple PSGI/Plack HTTP server which uses threads SYNOPSIS $ thrall --workers=20 --max-reqs-per-child=100 app.psgi $ thrall --port=80 --ipv6=1 app.psgi $ thrall --port=443 --ssl=1 --ssl-key-file=file.key --ssl-cert-file=file.crt app.psgi $ thrall --socket=/tmp/thrall.sock app.psgi DESCRIPTION Thrall is a standalone HTTP/1.1 server with keep-alive support. It uses threads instead pre-forking, so it works correctly on Windows. It is pure-Perl implementation which doesn't require any XS package. Thrall was started as a fork of Starlet server. It has almost the same code as Starlet and it was adapted to use threads instead fork(). SEE ALSO Starlight, Starlet, Starman LIMITATIONS See "BUGS AND LIMITATIONS" in threads and "Thread-Safety of System Libraries" in perlthrtut to read about limitations for PSGI applications started with Thrall and check if you encountered a known problem. Especially, PSGI applications should avoid: changing current working directory, catching signals, starting new processes. Environment variables might (Linux, Unix) or might not (Windows) be shared between threads. Thrall is very slow on first request for each thread. It is because spawning new thread is slow in Perl itself. Thrall is very fast on another requests and generally is faster than any implementation which uses fork. BUGS There is a problem with Perl threads implementation which occurs on Windows. Some requests can fail with message: failed to set socket to nonblocking mode:An operation was attempted on something that is not a socket. or Bad file descriptor at (eval 24) line 4. Cygwin version seems to be correct. This problem was introduced in Perl 5.16 and fixed in Perl 5.19.5. See https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=119003 and https://github.com/dex4er/Thrall/issues/5 for more information about this issue. Reporting If you find the bug or want to implement new features, please report it at https://github.com/dex4er/Starlight/issues The code repository is available at http://github.com/dex4er/Starlight AUTHORS Piotr Roszatycki Based on Starlet by: Kazuho Oku miyagawa kazeburo Some code based on Plack: Tatsuhiko Miyagawa Some code based on Net::Server::Daemonize: Jeremy Howard Paul Seamons LICENSE Copyright (c) 2013-2015 Piotr Roszatycki . This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as perl itself. See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/artistic.html