About

Kore (https://kore.io) is a fast webserver written in C for web applications developed in C. It provides a small set of API functions you can use to build a dynamic library which is loaded into Kore directly.

Kore is an ideal candidate for developing robust, fast and safe web applications.

Features

• Supports SNI
• Supports SPDY/3
• Supports HTTP/1.1
• Lightweight background tasks
• Built-in parameter validation
• Only HTTPS connections allowed
• Multiple modules can be loaded at once
• Built-in asynchronous PostgreSQL support
• Load your web application as a precompiled C library
• Event driven architecture with per CPU core worker processes
• Modules can be reloaded on-the-fly, even while serving content

License

• Kore is licensed under the ISC license

Platforms supported

• Linux
• OpenBSD
• FreeBSD
• OSX

See https://kore.io/doc/#section1.1 for more information.

Releases

• [2014-03-01] Version 1.1 - https://kore.io/release/kore-1.1-stable.tgz

Building Kore

Requirements

• libz
• openssl >= 1.0.1g

Requirements for background tasks

• pthreads

Requirements for pgsql

• libpq

Normal compilation and installation:

# git clone https://github.com/jorisvink/kore.git
# cd kore
# make
# make install

If you would like to build a specific flavor, you can enable those by setting a shell environment variable before running make.

• TASKS=1 (compiles in task support)
• PGSQL=1 (compiles in pgsql support)
• DEBUG=1 (enables use of -d for debug)
• KORE_PEDANTIC_MALLOC=1 (zero all allocated memory)

Example libraries

You can find example libraries under contrib/examples/.

The examples should be compiled using the supplied build.sh scripts and assume you have installed the header files using make install.

I apologize for unclear examples or documentation, I am working on improving those.

Bugs, contributions and more

If you run into any bugs, have suggestions or patches please contact me at joris@coders.se.

More information can be found on https://kore.io/