Mongrel2 is an

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"language agnostic"

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written by

Zed Shaw Zed A. Shaw is a software developer best known for creating the ''Learn Code the Hard Way'' series of programming tutorials, as well as for creating the Mongrel web server for Ruby web applications. He is also well known for his controversial vi ...

, and is the successor to Shaw's

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server. The server supports

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XMLSockets,

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s and long polling connections.

Language agnostic

Mongrel2 is described as language agnostic, meaning it does not prefer any specific programming language over another. The server's documentation says:

Development

Shaw began working on the server in June 2010 and released version 1.0 of the software on September 1, 2010. Mongrel2 has nothing in common with the original Mongrel webserver, except for using the same HTTP parser.

References

External links

* Free web server software 2010 software Web server software for Linux Free software programmed in C Software using the BSD license {{free-software-stub