[zeromq-dev] announcing Zurl

[Justin Karneges]

On Wednesday, September 26, 2012 10:16:15 PM Paul Colomiets wrote:
> Hi Justin,
> 
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Justin Karneges <justin at affinix.com> wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > I want to share a project I've been working on called Zurl. It's a server
> > with a ZeroMQ interface that makes outbound HTTP requests. Think of it
> > like the inverse of Mongrel2 or Zerogw. This is the project I was
> > discussing earlier on the list that needed two input sockets.
> > 
> > I've made it open source:
> >   https://github.com/fanout/zurl
> > 
> > Introduction article here:
> >   http://blog.fanout.io/2012/09/26/make-http-requests-over-zeromq-with-zur
> >   l/
> > 
> > Not much in the way of docs at the moment, but sample scripts in the tools
> > subdir give you an idea of what's possible. Feedback welcome.
> 
> Nice thing. I'm seeking for something similar to do benchmarks for my
> web applications. However, most our applications are websocket-driven.
> Any chance websockets will be supported?

Yes, I'd like to eventually support this. One nice thing is the ZeroMQ 
interface is already built to stream in both directions, so it shouldn't be 
too strange to handle ws/wss URL schemes.

Justin