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Today I finally sat down to remodel my HTTP stack/server from a forking model to a multithreaded model using the pthread library. Actually, this is my first project where I use POSIX threads, and I was delighted how easy it was to integrate them into my relatively well-designed program.

The server now works as follows: the "main" thread first creates a number of worker threads, and then accepts connections, puts them into a queue and then notifies the worker threads. The next worker thread that is ready takes the connection from the queue and handles the incoming requests. This is definitely a very simple design, which was also very easy to implement. The results can be found in httpstack/branches/pthread in the SVN repository. As usual, comments are welcome.

The next thing is where I will move that project. One idea I had was to integrate a database connection pool, and in addition probably a simple object-relational mapper, then an HTTP management interface for the whole thing and then some CMS.