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zijuexiansheng
zijuexiansheng

Reputation: 347

How to use tornado as both a socket server and web server?

I know the httpserver module in tornado is implemented based on the tcpserver module, so I can write a socket server based on tornado. But how can I write a server that is both a socket server and a web server?

For example, if I want to implement a chat app. A user can either login through a browser or a client program. The browser user can send msg to the client user through the back-end server. So the back-end server is a web and socket server.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1347

Answers (1)

A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
A. Jesse Jiryu Davis

Reputation: 24007

You can start multiple servers that share an IOLoop within the same process. Your HTTPServer could listen on one port, and the TCPServer could listen on another.

Upvotes: 3

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