README.md

shutdown-server

Demonstrates how to shutdown the web server in a couple of ways:

1. remotely, via HTTP request
2. sending a SIGINT signal to the server (control-c)
   • Actix Web servers support shutdown signals by default. See here for more info.

Usage

Running The Server

$ cd shutdown-server
$ cargo run --bin shutdown-server
[INFO] starting HTTP server at http://localhost:8080
[INFO] Starting 2 workers
[INFO] Actix runtime found; starting in Actix runtime

Available Routes

• GET /hello
  • Test hello world
• POST /stop/true
  • Gracefully shuts down the server and exit
• POST /stop/false
  • Forces server shutdown and exits