Magnum is a pure python HTTP server that is fast and efficient with resources. It is ideal for serving dynamic python-generated pages.
Features:
- Written in pure python
- Elegant, extensible and customizable
- No connectors needed to serve python web applications such as Django
- Event-driven non-blocking socket I/O (epoll)
- Can handle many simultaneous keep-alive connections to minimize latency
- Works well with slow clients
- Much faster than apache prefork and worker models
- Multi-process queue-based worker pool
- Shuns the one-thread-per-request paradigm to ensure system resources are available
- Uses python 2.6's multiprocessing features to divide up labor and manage resources efficiently
- Minimal collateral damage when under heavy load
- Shared memory pool
- Great for maintaining large per-machine in-memory caches to improve performance
- Supports WSGI and static file serving out of the box
- Simple config.py file
Requirements:
- Linux with kernel 2.5.66+
- Python 2.6+ (3.0 is untested)
1.0 Roadmap:
- kqueue/kevent socket implementation for BSD/OS X support
- Zero-downtime updates (no restart needed for changes to the app code layer)
- Reliability and security improvements
- Standard security audits
- Automatic chroot'ing
- Security ideas from OKWS
- Test suites and benchmarks
- Faster serving of static files (using sendfile system call where available)
- Sharing of file descriptors (possible in python?)
- Worker processes should be able to read and write on the client's socket
- HTTPS support
- Basic and Digest authentication out of the box
- Support gzip / deflate
- Built-in rate limiting module
- HTML GUI admin interface
