mongrel2

I managed to get Rust wired up to websockets pretty easily. There are working zeromq bindings: so you can use mongrel2 to handle websockets (with or without TLS) and then service those requests with a handler written in Rust! You have to write the handshake & protocol framing yourself; but there's a reference implementation in Python[1] that's only ~200 lines long and supposedly passed the Autobahn test suite. Rust's model of concurrency also jives really well with mongrel2's architecture. --- There's one gotcha: receiving on a zeromq socket through the C bindings blocks the OS thread. This will cause your program to deadlock if you're using Rust's green threading. (Native "1:1" threading is the default however.) [1]: https://github.com/zedshaw/mongrel2/tree/master/examples/ws

I was very excited about Mongrel2 for awhile, and also some of the projects that were being built off of it. For instance, I have mostly abandoned PHP, but Photon was the one PHP project that struck me as interesting, and it was built on top of Mongrel2. http://www.photon-project.com/ When I look here it seems the bulk of the work stopped almost 2 years ago: https://github.com/zedshaw/mongrel2 The work done this last year seems minor. I also notice that Zed Shaw is mostly working on some Javascript library right now. The world needs a great server built on top of ZeroMQ. Is anyone still focused on this project? If not, are there any other servers that use ZeroMQ in such a foundational way?

cool, this guy is doing some good work. see also mongrel2, a language agnostic webserver https://github.com/zedshaw/mongrel2