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diff --git a/doc/index.html b/doc/index.html index 5c7f9d72c6..f516a48b2a 100644 --- a/doc/index.html +++ b/doc/index.html @@ -33,12 +33,12 @@ <p id="introduction"> Evented I/O for - <a href="http://code.google.com/p/v8/">V8 javascript</a>. + <a href="http://code.google.com/p/v8/">V8 JavaScript</a>. </p> <p> - An example of a web server written with Node which responds with - "Hello World" after waiting two seconds: + An example of a web server written in Node which responds with + "Hello World" for every request. </p> <pre> @@ -49,14 +49,14 @@ http.createServer(function (req, res) { res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'}); res.end('Hello World\n'); }, 2000); -}).listen(8124); -sys.puts('Server running at http://127.0.0.1:8124/');</pre> +}).listen(8124, "127.0.0.1"); +sys.puts('Server running at http://127.0.0.1:8124/'); </pre> <p> To run the server, put the code into a file <code>example.js</code> and execute it with the <code>node</code> - program + program: </p> <pre class="sh_none"> % node example.js @@ -64,25 +64,24 @@ Server running at http://127.0.0.1:8124/</pre> <p> Here is an example of a simple TCP server which listens on port 8124 - and echos whatever you send it: + and echoes whatever you send it: </p> <pre> -var tcp = require('tcp'); -var server = tcp.createServer(function (socket) { +var net = require('net'); +net.createServer(function (socket) { socket.setEncoding("utf8"); socket.addListener("connect", function () { - socket.write("hello\r\n"); + socket.write("Echo server\r\n"); }); socket.addListener("data", function (data) { socket.write(data); }); socket.addListener("end", function () { - socket.write("goodbye\r\n"); socket.end(); }); -}); -server.listen(8124);</pre> +}).listen(8124, "127.0.0.1"); +</pre> <p> See the <a href="api.html">API documentation</a> for more @@ -109,7 +108,7 @@ server.listen(8124);</pre> tested on <b>Linux</b>, <b>Macintosh</b>, and <b>Solaris</b>. The build system requires Python 2.4 or better. V8, on which Node is built, supports only IA-32 and ARM processors. V8 is included in the - Node distribution. To use TLS, OpenSSL are required. + Node distribution. To use TLS, OpenSSL is required. There are no other dependencies. </p> @@ -143,12 +142,11 @@ make install</pre> <p> This is in contrast to today's more common concurrency model where - OS threads are employed. Thread-based networking - <a href="http://www.sics.se/~joe/apachevsyaws.html">is</a> - <a href="http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html">relatively</a> - <a href="http://bulk.fefe.de/scalable-networking.pdf">inefficient</a> - <!-- TODO needs links --> - and very difficult to use. + OS threads are employed. Thread-based networking is relatively + inefficient and very difficult to use. See: + <a href="http://www.sics.se/~joe/apachevsyaws.html">this,</a> + <a href="http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html">this,</a> and + <a href="http://bulk.fefe.de/scalable-networking.pdf">this.</a> Node will show much better memory efficiency under high-loads <!-- TODO benchmark --> |