Zurl

Date: February 6th, 2014
Author: Justin Karneges justin@fanout.io
Mailing List: http://lists.fanout.io/listinfo.cgi/fanout-users-fanout.io

Description

HTTP and WebSocket client worker with ZeroMQ interface.

License

Zurl is offered under the GNU GPL. See the COPYING file.

Features

Request HTTP and HTTPS URLs
Connect to WS and WSS URLs for WebSockets
Completely event-driven, using JDNS and Libcurl
Handle thousands of simultaneous outbound connections
Two access methods: REQ and PUSH/SUB (think Mongrel2 in reverse!)
Streaming requests and responses
Packet format can be JSON or TNetStrings
Set access policies (e.g. block requests to 10.*)

Requirements

qt >= 4.7
libzmq >= 2.0
libcurl >= 7.20
qjson

Setup

If accessing from Git, be sure to pull submodules:

git submodule init
git submodule update

Build:

./configure
make

Run:

cp zurl.conf.example zurl.conf
./zurl --verbose --config=zurl.conf

Test:

python tools/get.py http://fanout.io/