About

tänzer is a very lightweight web server framework which utilizes the inherent beauty of Tcl's builtin event loop to great effect. tänzer hopes to uphold the idea of an anti-framework: To stay out of the way as much as possible and provide only the bare minimum boilerplate basics of providing for most HTTP service needs. A great emphasis is placed on performance, simplicity, understandability, and low project overhead.

API overview

Server internals

tanzer::server

The socket responder, session keeper, log manager, error handler and request handler routing table.
tanzer::error

The error handling and reporting facility.
tanzer::logger

The request logging facility.
tanzer::router

The request handler routing table.
tanzer::session

The HTTP session management class.

HTTP messages

tanzer::message

The base HTTP message class providing semantics for parsing and encoding HTTP messages of any sort.
tanzer::request

The HTTP request class.
tanzer::response

The HTTP response class.

HTTP request handlers

tanzer::forwarder

Base class for implementing request handlers which forward requests to other programs and services.
tanzer::file::handler

The request handler which provides static file service.
tanzer::cgi::handler

The request handler which dispatches inbound requests to CGI executables.
tanzer::scgi::handler

The request handler which dispatches inbound requests to SCGI services.
tanzer::http::handler

The request handler which dispatches inbound requests to external HTTP services.

Request protocol support

tanzer::http::request

The inbound HTTP request parser. This is the default first responder to inbound connections.
tanzer::scgi::request

The inbound SCGI request parser. This allows one to serve their tänzer applications as an SCGI service.

Utility packages

tanzer::date

RFC 2616 timestamp parsing and generation package.
tanzer::uri

Request path and URI manipulation routines.

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