Elserv: Yet another HTTP server on Emacsen

Project Summary on SourceForge

[Japanese | English]

Elserv is an HTTP server which runs on Emacs.

Since Emacs does not support server sockets, Elserv runs dedicated server process (ruby script) as a backend process and communicate with it to provide a server feature on Emacs.

What's New

Check here.

Features

Requirements

Download

Newest version is 0.4.0.
elserv-0.4.0.tar.gz

Install

Usage

Call (require 'elserv), then execute `elserv-start'. it invokes a new server.
It listens on port 8000 (by default setting).
You can register your own content by the function `elserv-publish'.
Access logs are recorded on the buffer "*Log of elserv*".
The command `elserv-stop' or killing the buffer "*elserv*" stops the server process.

Application

demo

es-demo.el is a sample server for demonstration.

wiki

es-wiki.el is an interface for emacs-wiki.

MHC

es-mhc.el is an interface for MHC.

remote

remote.el is a web based remote controller for Emacs.

web-custom

web-custom.el is web version of custom.

Demonstration Video

Here is an Elserv demo video via emacs-w3m.
elserv-demo.tty (requires ttyrec, japanese (euc-jp) terminal)

TODO

Mailing List

elserv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net is a mailing list for Elserv development.
To subscribe, goto the elserv-devel mailing list page.

CVS

See CVS document on SourceForge. modulename is "Elserv" (Note that first letter 'E' is upper case).
ViewCVS is here.

Related Work

Evaluation

Evaluation by http_load:
% http_load -parallel 10 -seconds 2 elserv-test
171 fetches, 10 max parallel, 191349 bytes, in 2.00573 seconds
1119 mean bytes/connection
85.2557 fetches/sec, 95401.1 bytes/sec
msecs/connect: 0.203205 mean, 1.205 max, 0.082 min
msecs/first-response: 77.3926 mean, 133.693 max, 27.229 min
Access from localhost to localhost. Target page is the top page of `elserv-demo'.
Environment: Celeron 400MHz, FreeBSD 3.5.1, Emacs 21.
Yuuichi Teranishi<teranisi@gohome.org>
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