Yes that's what I had in mind.

You can do some fun things with Control.Concurrent.Chan as well if you need special sequencing, or limits on requests served or callbacks into the main thread etc.

 - Lyndon

On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 12:32 PM ☂Josh Chia (謝任中) <joshchia@gmail.com> wrote:

Do you mean something like calling the scotty function in a server thread and then killing the server thread when I want to stop serving? If proper cleanup happens when I kill the thread, this should work for me.

On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 10:01 AM Lyndon Maydwell <maydwell@gmail.com> wrote:

Not sure if I'm missing something, but is there any reason why you couldn't spin up the server in a thread then kill it when required?

 - Lyndon

On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 11:51 AM ☂Josh Chia (謝任中) <joshchia@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

My application is not a webserver but needs to run a webserver for part but not all of its lifetime. Particularly, there's a part that does some complex computation and I want a webserver to expose its internal state/progress through HTTP.

It seems that the typical and expected way to use a webserver is to designate the entire app itself as a webserver, so that functions like the following are basically infinite loops that serve HTTP:

Web.Scotty.scotty: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/scotty-0.11.2/docs/Web-Scotty.html#v:scotty

Network.Wai.Handler.Warp.run: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/warp-3.2.22/docs/Network-Wai-Handler-Warp.html#v:run

Can I run a webserver with explicit control of its lifetime? Particularly, I want to be able to kill it without killing the app or explicitly serve one request at a time. I'm not restricted to scotty or warp.

Josh

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