Concepts

This section of the pyttpd documentation covers the concepts and ideas behind pyttpd.

It is the authorative source for information on how pyttpd should work internally.

Contents:

• Goals
  • Security
  • Performance
  • Scalability
  • Flexibility
  • Freedom

• Privilege Separation

• Process Layout
  • Privileged Master Process (pmaster)
  • Unprivileged Master Process (umaster)
  • Listener Process
  • Vhost Process

• Interprocess Communication (IPC)
  • Internal Communication
  • External Communication