On Jan 30, 2012, at 3:01 PM, Ricardo Pedroso wrote: > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Ricardo Pedroso <rmdpedr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Massimo Di Pierro >> <massimo.dipie...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I used to be able to stop the server with CRTL+C but it does not work >>> anymore on my mac. I now have to kill it. Why? >> >> I'm new to web2py, but I already see this happened >> in other scripts when working with sockets and threads. > > I've been analyzing this issue and I think I've found the problem > I think the problem could be with HTTP/1.1 keep_alive feature. > > How to test: > 1. In a console start web2py: > $ ./web2py > > 2. In other console start a telnet connection to web2py: > $ telnet 127.0.0.1 8000 > GET / HTTP/1.1<CR> > Host: 127.0.0.1:8000<CR> > Connection: keep-alive<CR> > <CR> > > After this last <CR>, telnet session doesn't quit. > > Now in the other console stop web2py with CTRL-C > it will hand, but if you kill the telnet web2py quit immediately. > > > This test can be done with a browser also: > Just run one and only one browser instance and goto http://127.0.0.1:8000 > Then CTRL-C web2py, it will hang > Close your browser and web2py quits immediately > > web2py after some time eventually quits, the socket will timeout, I'm not > sure but this timeout is the default from the OS. > > web2py is hanging in the thread join in rocket.py around line 1066 in > the stop method. > > This was not easy for me to explain but I hope that I gave some more > leads to this issue.
Good work; thanks! Maybe Tim can take a look?
