NAME

POE::Component::Server::SimpleHTTP::PreFork - PreForking support for SimpleHTTP

SYNOPSIS

        use POE;
        use POE::Component::Server::SimpleHTTP::PreFork;

        # Start the server!
        POE::Component::Server::SimpleHTTP::PreFork->new(
                'ALIAS'         =>      'HTTPD',
                'ADDRESS'       =>      '192.168.1.1',
                'PORT'          =>      11111,
                'HOSTNAME'      =>      'MySite.com',
                'HANDLERS'      =>      [
                        {
                                'DIR'           =>      '^/bar/.*',
                                'SESSION'       =>      'HTTP_GET',
                                'EVENT'         =>      'GOT_BAR',
                        },
                        {
                                'DIR'           =>      '^/$',
                                'SESSION'       =>      'HTTP_GET',
                                'EVENT'         =>      'GOT_MAIN',
                        },
                        {
                                'DIR'           =>      '^/foo/.*',
                                'SESSION'       =>      'HTTP_GET',
                                'EVENT'         =>      'GOT_NULL',
                        },
                        {
                                'DIR'           =>      '.*',
                                'SESSION'       =>      'HTTP_GET',
                                'EVENT'         =>      'GOT_ERROR',
                        },
                ],

                # In the testing phase...
                'SSLKEYCERT'            =>      [ 'public-key.pem', 'public-cert.pem' ],

                # In the testing phase...
                'FORKHANDLERS'          =>      { 'HTTP_GET' => 'FORKED' },
                'MINSPARESERVERS'       =>      5,
                'MAXSPARESERVERS'       =>      10,
                'MAXCLIENTS'            =>      256,
                'STARTSERVERS'          =>      10,
                'IPC_GLUE'              =>      'uniq',
        ) or die 'Unable to create the HTTP Server';

ABSTRACT

        Subclass of SimpleHTTP for PreForking support

New Constructor Options

MINSPARESERVERS
        An integer that tells the server how many spares should be in the pool at any given
        time. Processes are forked off at a rate of 1 a second until this limit is met.
MAXSPARESERVERS
        An integer that tells the server the maximum number of spares that may be in the pool
        at any given time. It is possible for more than this number of spares to exist, but at the very
        least the parent will stop forking requests off and the children will start to die eventually.

        If this value is less than MINSPARESERVERS then it is set to MINSPARESERVERS + 1.
MAXCLIENTS
        An integer that tells the server the maximum number of clients that will be
        created. After this limit is reached, no more spares will be forked, even if the number drops below
        MINSPARESERVERS.
STARTSERVERS
        An integer that tells the server how many processes to prefork at startup.
FORKHANDLERS
        A HASH where the keys are sessions and the values are events. When a child forks,
        before it begins accepting connections it will call these events on the specified
        sessions. This allows you to setup per-process resources (such as database
        connections, ldap connects, etc). These events will never be called for the
        parent.
IPC_GLUE
        A string containing either an integer or 4 characters specifying the key/glue
        for the underlying parent/child IPC communication.
        Running multiple instances of POE::Component::Server::SimpleHTTP::PreFork
        on the same host without using this option with different values
        almost guarantees some chaos.

New Events

ISCHILD
        Returns true if you are inside a child, false if you are in the parent.
GETFORKHANDLERS
        This event accepts 2 arguments: the session + event to send the response to.

        This even will send back the current FORKHANDLERS hash ( deep-closed via
        Storable::dclone ).

        The resulting hash can be played around to your tastes, then once you are done...
SETFORKHANDLERS
        This event accepts only one argument: reference to FORKHANDLERS hash.

        BEWARE: this event is disabled in a forked child.

Miscellaneous Notes

        BEWARE: HANDLERS munging is disabled in a forked child. Also, handlers changed in
        the parent will not appear in the already forked children.

        BEWARE: for a child, calling {STOP,START}LISTEN does not {destroy,recreate} the
        SOCKETFACTORY like it does in the parent. Instead, the child will {pause,resume}
        accepting connections on the current SOCKETFACTORY. Also, {STOP,START}LISTEN does
        not have any effect on the scoreboard calculations: this child will still
        be marked a spare if it finishes all its requests.

        The shutdown event is altered a little bit
                GRACEFUL -> sends a TERM signal to all remaining children and waits for their death
                NOARGS -> kills all remaining children with prejudice

        Keep in mind that being forked means any global data is not shared between processes and etc. Please see perlfork for all the implications on your platform.

New Compile-time constants

Checking spares every second may be a bit too much for you. You can override this behavior by doing this:

        sub POE::Component::Server::SimpleHTTP::PreFork::CHECKSPARES_INTERVAL () { 10 }
        use POE::Component::Server::SimpleHTTP::PreFork;

If the prefork failed because it could not obtain shared memory for the scoreboard, then if retries after 5 seconds. You can override this behavior by doing this:

        sub POE::Component::Server::SimpleHTTP::PreFork::PREFORK_INTERVAL () { 10 }
        use POE::Component::Server::SimpleHTTP::PreFork;

If you would like to see the contents of the scoreboard every second then do this:

        sub POE::Component::Server::SimpleHTTP::PreFork::DEBUGSB () { 1 }
        use POE::Component::Server::SimpleHTTP::PreFork;

EXPORT

Nothing.

SEE ALSO

        L<POE::Component::Server::SimpleHTTP>

AUTHOR

Apocalypse <apocal@cpan.org> Stephen Butler <stephen.butler@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2006 by Apocalypse + Stephen Butler

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.