THS: a Tcl Http Server

THS is a small web server written in Tcl. It's primary use is in hosting THT (see THSTHT). THS runs THT natively, with zero dependancies, and without the overhead of CGI or FastCGI, and does not depend on Apache or other webservers.

When running THS, THT files (those with the .tht and .thr extensions) can be served out, natively. It does not use exec, sockets or other high overhead mechanisms. All handling is in-process, with individual requests handled within sub-interps. This limits overhead to setting up and managing a sub-interp as opposed to IPC and context switching. With resident pages, even that overhead is eliminated or minimized.

Thus dynamic web scripting can be used, without dependancies and their attendant complexity.

THS GUI

If you are using Wize, then you can try the new admin gui:

  wize ths -gui 1

The Gui is mostly used to display statistics. However, the Conf values can be edited allowing you to change some of the runtime options.