Facebook Open-Sources C++ HTTP Library Collection Proxygen
Facebook’s open-source train keeps rolling, as the social network announced the release of Proxygen, a collection of C++ HTTP libraries, which also includes an easy-to-use HTTP server.
Facebook’s open-source train keeps rolling, as the social network announced the release of Proxygen, a collection of C++ HTTP libraries, which also includes an easy-to-use HTTP server.
Software engineers Daniel Sommermann and Alan Frindell announced in a post on the Facebook engineering blog that Proxygen supports HTTP/1.1, SPDY/3 and SPDY/3.1, and support for HTTP/2 is being developed.
They also described the motives behind Proxygen:
Proxygen is not designed to replace Apache or nginx — those projects focus on building extremely flexible HTTP servers written in C that offer good performance but almost overwhelming amounts of configurability.
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