Changes for version 0.28 - 2008-01-15
- New restartability support from Mark Stosberg
- After reviewing the code in HTTP::Server::Simple, Catalyst::Engine::HTTP and HTTP::Server::Brick, I found and implemented an updated signal handling approach that I like and understand, and actually works.
- The current code restarted immediately if a SIGHUP came in, no matter what was happening, including if a request was in process of being fulfilled.
- The new code works more like "apachectl graceful". It waits for the current request cycle to finish, and then restarts the server.
- This code has to be integrated in the core, but its just about the same amount of signal handling code that was there... it just works better. It's also written in such a way I think subclass/mixin authors could rewrite just these parts if they wanted.
- Also, it looks like a Net::Server based sub-class would already be doing its own thing with SIGHUP handling, and should continue to be unaffected.
Modules
Lightweight HTTP server
CGI.pm-style version of HTTP::Server::Simple
a HTTP::Server::Simple mixin to provide the CGI protocol