Introducing nginx-perl
Hello, everyone.
I'm happy to announce the first release of nginx-perl, version 1.1.11.1:
http://zzzcpan.github.com/nginx-perl/
Nginx-perl provides asynchronous functions for original embedded perl to resolve domain names, connect to external hosts, exchange data and most importantly respond to HTTP clients. Code sample can be found on the web page above.
Features
- full official nginx perl API
- asynchronous connections (ngx_connector, ngx_reader, ngx_writer)
- timer (ngx_timer)
- SSL (ngx_ssl_handshaker)
- resolver (ngx_resolver)
- access handlers (perl_access)
- app handlers (perl_app)
- configuration level eval (perl_eval)
- init_worker, exit_worker handlers (perl_init_worker, perl_exit_worker)
- logging functions (ngx_log_*)
- client connection takeover for websockets, etc.
In many ways it is an actual asynchronous framework.
You can install it from sources manually with your favorite nginx addons:
% perl Makefile.PL --with-http_ssl_module
% make
% make test
% make install
# or to try without installation
% ./objs/nginx-perl -p eg/helloworld
Or from CPAN:
% cpan Nginx::Perl
Documentation is far from perfect, but should be enough for people already familiar with embeeded perl.
Github:
https://github.com/zzzcpan/nginx-perl
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Cool. As a long time mod_perl user, I would like to try this out someday. Been wanting to migrate to nginx and ditch Apache for some usage scenarios.
Next step: putting a PSGI adapter on top of that.
Someday. Yaroslav Korshak already implemented PSGI for nginx https://github.com/yko/ngx_mod_psgi
It seems that yours is less experimental than his – or at least it seems that way from his disclaimers. A thin PSGI adapter on top of your full-featured interface might be a better idea than a direct, stand-alone one.
Well, it's been a year on my part and many years on Igor's (original perl module), so it's hardly experimental.
The thing is Yaroslav wants his module stand-alone but I'm not using PSGI myself. It won't benefit anyone if he won't support stripped-down integrated version of his module. Other than that it's a pretty trivial task.