Base TCP server class. You must subclass GenericServer and provide a run method.

Methods
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Attributes
[R] config

The server configuration
[R] listeners

Sockets listening for connections.
[R] logger

The server logger. This is independent from the HTTP access log.
[R] status

The server status. One of :Stop, :Running or :Shutdown
[R] tokens

Tokens control the number of outstanding clients. The :MaxClients configuration sets this.
Class Public methods
new(config={}, default=Config::General)

Creates a new generic server from config. The default configuration comes from default.

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# File lib/webrick/server.rb, line 95
def initialize(config={}, default=Config::General)
  @config = default.dup.update(config)
  @status = :Stop
  @config[:Logger] ||= Log::new
  @logger = @config[:Logger]

  @tokens = SizedQueue.new(@config[:MaxClients])
  @config[:MaxClients].times{ @tokens.push(nil) }

  webrickv = WEBrick::VERSION
  rubyv = "#{RUBY_VERSION} (#{RUBY_RELEASE_DATE}) [#{RUBY_PLATFORM}]"
  @logger.info("WEBrick #{webrickv}")
  @logger.info("ruby #{rubyv}")

  @listeners = []
  @shutdown_pipe = nil
  unless @config[:DoNotListen]
    if @config[:Listen]
      warn(":Listen option is deprecated; use GenericServer#listen")
    end
    listen(@config[:BindAddress], @config[:Port])
    if @config[:Port] == 0
      @config[:Port] = @listeners[0].addr[1]
    end
  end
end
Instance Public methods
[](key)

Retrieves key from the configuration

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# File lib/webrick/server.rb, line 125
def [](key)
  @config[key]
end
listen(address, port)

Adds listeners from address and port to the server. See WEBrick::Utils.create_listeners for details.

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# File lib/webrick/server.rb, line 133
def listen(address, port)
  @listeners += Utils::create_listeners(address, port)
end
run(sock)

You must subclass GenericServer and implement #run which accepts a TCP client socket

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# File lib/webrick/server.rb, line 248
def run(sock)
  @logger.fatal "run() must be provided by user."
end
shutdown()

Shuts down the server and all listening sockets. New listeners must be provided to restart the server.

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# File lib/webrick/server.rb, line 238
def shutdown
  stop

  alarm_shutdown_pipe {|f| f.close}
end
start(&block)

Starts the server and runs the block for each connection. This method does not return until the server is stopped from a signal handler or another thread using stop or shutdown.

If the block raises a subclass of StandardError the exception is logged and ignored. If an IOError or Errno::EBADF exception is raised the exception is ignored. If an Exception subclass is raised the exception is logged and re-raised which stops the server.

To completely shut down a server call shutdown from ensure:

server = WEBrick::GenericServer.new
# or WEBrick::HTTPServer.new

begin
  server.start
ensure
  server.shutdown
end

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# File lib/webrick/server.rb, line 158
def start(&block)
  raise ServerError, "already started." if @status != :Stop
  server_type = @config[:ServerType] || SimpleServer

  setup_shutdown_pipe

  server_type.start{
    @logger.info            "#{self.class}#start: pid=#{$$} port=#{@config[:Port]}"
    call_callback(:StartCallback)

    shutdown_pipe = @shutdown_pipe

    thgroup = ThreadGroup.new
    @status = :Running
    begin
      while @status == :Running
        begin
          sp = shutdown_pipe[0]
          if svrs = IO.select([sp, *@listeners], nil, nil, 2.0)
            if svrs[0].include? sp
              # swallow shutdown pipe
              buf = String.new
              nil while String ===
                        sp.read_nonblock([sp.nread, 8].max, buf, exception: false)
              break
            end
            svrs[0].each{|svr|
              @tokens.pop          # blocks while no token is there.
              if sock = accept_client(svr)
                unless config[:DoNotReverseLookup].nil?
                  sock.do_not_reverse_lookup = !!config[:DoNotReverseLookup]
                end
                th = start_thread(sock, &block)
                th[:WEBrickThread] = true
                thgroup.add(th)
              else
                @tokens.push(nil)
              end
            }
          end
        rescue Errno::EBADF, Errno::ENOTSOCK, IOError => ex
          # if the listening socket was closed in GenericServer#shutdown,
          # IO::select raise it.
        rescue StandardError => ex
          msg = "#{ex.class}: #{ex.message}\n\t#{ex.backtrace[0]}"
          @logger.error msg
        rescue Exception => ex
          @logger.fatal ex
          raise
        end
      end
    ensure
      cleanup_shutdown_pipe(shutdown_pipe)
      cleanup_listener
      @status = :Shutdown
      @logger.info "going to shutdown ..."
      thgroup.list.each{|th| th.join if th[:WEBrickThread] }
      call_callback(:StopCallback)
      @logger.info "#{self.class}#start done."
      @status = :Stop
    end
  }
end
stop()

Stops the server from accepting new connections.

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# File lib/webrick/server.rb, line 226
def stop
  if @status == :Running
    @status = :Shutdown
  end

  alarm_shutdown_pipe {|f| f.write_nonblock("\0")}
end