This is a work-in-progress python http server library and not a production ready server yet. So far, it support Http 1.0, 1.1 and can simply fetch web pages. Even though Wind has a long way to go before becoming a fully fledged http server library like Django, it attains the highest performance amongst python server libraries in some of the benchmarks below.
The benchmarks were carried out in my linux work machine using ApacheBench under four scenarios as given below in the table. In every request, the servers respond with the string "Hello World". The table entries indicate the number of requests per second that each server can respond to and the bold entries indicate the fastest reading under that particular testing scenario. In almost all of the cases below, Wind outperforms all the other libraries significantly. The N/A below indicates timeout errors.
| Library | ab -n 50000 |
ab -n 100000 -c 30 |
ab -k -n 200000 |
ab -k -n 400000 -c 30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wind | 21629.83 | 32753.86 | 65191.02 | 112788.88 |
| Flask | 1602.98 | 1713.47 | 1569.49 | 1672.74 |
| Django | 884.80 | 1020.06 | N/A | N/A |
| Japronto | 13286.20 | 34405.91 | 13207.65 | 33169.15 |
| Python HttpServer | 5523.79 | N/A | 5068.46 | N/A |
| Sanic | 5823.02 | 11156.12 | 13062.08 | 19631.69 |
| Tornado | 1838.15 | 2468.80 | 2300.07 | 2776.09 |
| Twisted | 2045.28 | 3344.92 | 2091.33 | 3019.14 |
Wind is mostly coded using C++ and Python C API. Hence, a C++14 compliant compiler will be required along with Python C API header files. Wind supports Python 3.5+ and currently Linux systems. Enter python setup.py install in the terminal to install the library.
from wind import Server
s = Server(port=5000)
s.add_endpoint('/', 'hello world') # sending request to "127.0.0.1:5000/" will return the "hello world" string
s.add_directory('/', './contents', ['html', 'css'])
# Instructs server to fetch any html or css files present within "contents" folder.
# Inside the "contents" folder, suppose there is page1.html, page2.html and other css files.
# To get 'page1.html', send request to "127.0.0.1:5000/page1.html" from the browser.
s.start()