Tornado

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How it plugs in

—Public API

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YesFree tier

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TornadoApache License 2.0 · Install with pipFree

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Facts

Website: tornadoweb.org
Price: Free tier
Free trial: Not stated
Async integration: Tornado shares the standard-library asyncio event loop by default, and asyncio-designed libraries can generally be mixed with it.
Authentication integrations: The tornado.auth module supports authentication and authorization protocols for services including Google/Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, and FriendFeed.
Components: Tornado includes a web framework, client- and server-side HTTP implementations, and an asynchronous networking library.
Cookie security detail: Signed cookies provide integrity but not confidentiality, so their contents remain visible to users.
Deployment: Tornado supplies its own HTTPServer and is started by running an application entry point that starts the server.
License: Tornado is available under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
Linux and macOS: Tornado is designed for Unix-like platforms and performs best on systems with epoll, kqueue, or /dev/poll support.
Long connections: Its non-blocking network I/O can scale to tens of thousands of open connections, supporting use cases such as long polling and WebSockets.
Security features: Tornado supports signed cookies and includes built-in cross-site request forgery protection that can be enabled with the xsrf_cookies setting.
Support: The project directs users to its developer mailing list for discussion and its GitHub issue tracker for bug reports.
What it is: Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library.
Windows limitation: Tornado runs on Windows, but Windows is not officially supported or recommended for production, and some features such as multi-process mode are missing.

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