Small experiments with web servers and timeouts

net/http experiments

There is nasty bug in net/http if you plan to use it with timeout option. See net-http folder.

Other http clients:

• https://github.com/excon/excon (uses proper IO.select with timeout, but does not close socket in case of timeout)
• https://github.com/toland/patron (based on libcurl)
• https://github.com/typhoeus/typhoeus (based on libcurl)
• https://github.com/httprb/http (uses Timeout)
• https://github.com/nahi/httpclient (uses Timeout)
• https://github.com/igrigorik/em-http-request

Unicorn with check_client_connection + excon timeout experiment

See unicorn-excon folder.

Problem with closing socket

• https://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/201994
• http://www.ssfnet.org/Exchange/tcp/tcpTutorialNotes.html

Unicorn links

• Unicorn docs
• https://shopifyengineering.myshopify.com/blogs/engineering/17489012-what-does-your-webserver-do-when-a-user-hits-refresh